CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, members of the STS-131 crew take time out from their training for a group portrait looking out from the top of an M-113 armored personnel carrier. In front is Commander Alan Poindexter. Behind him, from left, are Mission Specialists Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger and Stephanie Wilson; Pilot James P. Dutton Jr.; and Mission Specialists Rick Mastracchio, Naoko Yamazaki of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and Clayton Anderson. An M-113 is kept at the foot of the launch pad in case an emergency egress from the vicinity of the p
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, members of the STS-131 crew take time out from their training for a group portrait looking out from the top of an M-113 armored personnel carrier. In front is Commander Alan Poindexter. Behind him, from left, are Mission Specialists Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger and Stephanie Wilson; Pilot James P. Dutton Jr.; and Mission Specialists Rick Mastracchio, Naoko Yamazaki of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and Clayton Anderson. An M-113 is kept at the foot of the launch pad in case an emergency egress from the vicinity of the pad is needed. The crew members of space shuttle Discovery's STS-131 mission are at Kennedy for training related to their launch dress rehearsal, the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test. The seven-member crew will deliver the multi-purpose logistics module Leonardo, filled with resupply stowage platforms and racks, to the International Space Station aboard Discovery. Targeted for launch on April 5, STS-131 will be the 33rd shuttle mission to the station and the 131st shuttle mission overall.
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