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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The payload canister moves out of the Vertical Processing Facility, on its way to Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The canister is transferring the first section of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Kibo laboratory and the Canadian Space Agency's two-armed robotic system, Dextre, to the payload changeout room, part of the rotating service structure. The changeout room is the enclosed, environmentally controlled portion of the rotating service structure that supports cargo delivery to the pad and subsequent vertical installation into an orbiter's payload bay. The payload will be installed into Endeavour for launch on the STS-123 mission targeted for March 11. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett