STS102-317-008 (8–21 March 2001) --- Astronaut Andrew S. W. Thomas, STS-102 mission specialist is photographed here in the Leonardo Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM) which was built by the Italian Space Agency (ASI). The MPLM is the first of three such pressurized modules that will serve as the International Space Station’s “moving vans”, carrying laboratory racks filled with equipment, experiments and supplies to and from the station aboard the space shuttle.