CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At SPACEHAB in Titusville, Fla., STS-127 crew members look at the Pump Module Assembly on the Integrated Cargo Carrier-VLD (Vertical Light Deployment), part of the payload for the mission. At right is the LDU (Linear Drive Unit). The crew members are at Kennedy for a crew equipment interface test, or CEIT, which provides experience handling tools, equipment and hardware they will use on the mission. The payload will be launched to the International Space Station aboard space shuttle Endeavour on the STS-127 mission, targeted for launch on May 15, 2009. Photo credit: NASA/Dimitrios Gerondidakis
Location Cape Canaveral, FL
Date December 15, 2008