A view of the wiring or the shuttle payload bay in the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory (SAIL) at the Johnson Space Center on Tuesday, July 12, 2011, in Houston. The laboratory is a skeletal avionics version of the shuttle that uses actual orbiter hardware and flight software. The facility even carries the official orbiter designation as OV-095. ( NASA Photo / Houston Chronicle, Smiley N. Pool ) SAIL payload bay (JSC2011-E-067679)

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