KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The S5 truss segment for the International Space Station is offloaded from the Super Guppy transport aircraft at the KSC Shuttle Landing Facility. The S5 truss will be transferred to the Space Station Processing Facility where it will be fit checked for a Photo-Voltaic Radiator Grapple Fixture. It will also undergo a fit check to a truss simulator to make sure S5 will fit together with the S4 and S6 truss segments. S5 is scheduled for launch in October 2003 on mission STS-118. It will be the 10th truss assembled as part of a total 11 trusses.

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