Space Station Payloads

STS-135 Space Station Payload

Raffaello multi-purpose logistics module

Raffaello Multi-purpose Logistics Module
Aboard Atlantis
Mission STS-135

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Station Features

Florida is Base for U.S. National Lab

Waleed Abdalati, NASA chief scientist (left), Mark Uhran, NASA assistant associate administrator for the International Space Station (center) and Jeanne Becker, Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) executive director (right).

The U.S. national laboratory aboard the ISS is now managed at Kennedy's Space Life Sciences Laboratory.

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AMS Eyes to Focus on Invisible Universe

The AMS program logo

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer is designed to open human eyes to invisible cosmic rays.

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Preparing for the Research Decade

The International Space Station as seen from an approaching space shuttle.

Ten years of exciting research lies ahead aboard the International Space Station.

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Station Processing

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  • Space shuttle Atlantis on the launch pad with payload canister.

    Last Shuttle Payload to the Pad

    At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the transportation canister carrying the STS-135 payload is lifted toward the payload changeout room on Launch Pad 39A's rotating service structure. From the...

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