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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At NASA's Kennedy Space Center, members of space shuttle Discovery's STS-128 crew depart the Shuttle Landing Facility for crew quarters in the Operations and Checkout Building. The crew arrived in a NASA Shuttle Training Aircraft at Kennedy's Shuttle Landing Facility at 6:34 p.m. EDT. From left are Kennedy's Center Director Bob Cabana, a former astronaut himself; Mission Specialist Patrick Forrester; Commander Rick Sturckow; Mission Specialist Christer Fuglesang, a Swedish astronaut with the European Space Agency; Pilot Kevin Ford; Mission Specialist Jose Hernandez; STS-128 Launch Director Pete Nickolenko; and Mission Specialists John "Danny" Olivas and Nicole Stott who will remain on the International Space Station as flight engineer for Expedition 20. The crew has returned to Kennedy to prepare for launch on Aug. 25 at 1:36 a.m. EDT. The 13-day mission will deliver a new crew member and 33,000 pounds of equipment to the International Space Station. The equipment includes science and storage racks, a freezer to store research samples, a new sleeping compartment and the COLBERT treadmill. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett