Summary

Description	MS. STILSON: Discovery will be carrying several payloads to the International Space Station, including Raffaello, one of three Multi-Purpose Logistics Modules built by the Italian Space Agency. Scott Higginbotham, Space Station payload manager, is about to explain what we take with us into space and how we prepare it for the trip. Music. MR. HIGGINBOTHAM: A payload is anything that the Shuttle carries up into space, anything that's not part of the Shuttle itself. And so for the mission like the one we're getting ready to fly,the payload is the hardware in the payload bay, the International Space Station hardware that we're carrying up to the Station. Music. The hardware that we're preparing is, again, very expensive, very complex and its high performance. And it's very sensitive. It has a lot of machinery and a lot of electronic devices that need to be kept clean in order for them to operate properly. So we go to great lengths to ensure that both the facility environment that
Date	2005-07-18
Source	images.nasa.gov

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