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NASA prepares to launch Space Shuttle Endeavour on mission STS-123 in Florida

NASA mission STS-123 Commander Dominic Gorie (R), mission specialist Michael Foreman (2nd-R), mission specialist Garrett Reisman (C), mission specialists Richard Linnehan (rear center), mission specialist Robert Behnken (3rd-L), Pilot Gregory Johnson (2nd-L) and Takao Doi, a Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut, make their way to Launch Pad 39A to board Space Shuttle Endeavour at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on March 10, 2008. The seven-man crew is scheduled to launch on mission STS-123, a 16-day service mission to the International Space Station to install the Japanese-built Kibo laboratory and the Canadian Space Agency's robotic arm system, at 2:28 a.m. on March 11, 2008. (UPI Photo/Kevin Dietsch)

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