At Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility, workers watch as the nose of NASA's Super Guppy aircraft opens to reveal its cargo, a component for the International Space Station (ISS), the port-side P3 truss. The truss is scheduled to be added to the ISS on mission STS-115 in 2002 aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis. The second port truss segment, P3 will be attached to the first port truss segment (P1). The P3 truss will be taken to the Operations and Checkout Building.
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At Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility, workers watch as the nose of NASA's Super Guppy aircraft opens to reveal its cargo, a component for the International Space Station (ISS), the port-side P3 truss. The truss is scheduled to be added to the ISS on mission STS-115 in 2002 aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis. The second port truss segment, P3 will be attached to the first port truss segment (P1). The P3 truss will be taken to the Operations and Checkout Building.