NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Checking the Payload

On Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, STS-127 crew members get a chance to check space shuttle Endeavour's payload bay.

Mission Specialists Christopher Cassidy and Tim Kopra and Commander Mark Polansky take a close look at the docking adapter. The payload includes the Japanese Experiment Module's Exposed Facility and the Experiment Logistics Module-Exposed Section.

Image credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
June 3, 2009