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In the payload changeout room, or PCR, on Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a closeup shows two of the four carriers inside the payload canister that will be transferred into the PCR. These carriers are the Multi-Use Logistic Equipment carrier (top) and the Flight Support System carrier. They hold various equipment for the STS-125 mission aboard space shuttle Atlantis to service NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. The PGHM removes payloads from a transportation canister and installs them into the shuttle. It is essentially NASA’s largest fork-lift. Atlantis is targeted to launch Oct. 10.