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Members of the media were invited to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the launch of the first element of the International Space Station by touring the Space Station Processing Facility (SSPF) at KSC. Here, Shimpei Takahashi (center), representative of the Japanese Air and Space Agency (JAXA), talks about the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM) on camera. Reporters had the opportunity to see Space Station hardware that is being processed for deployment once the Space Shuttles return to flight, as well as talk with NASA and Boeing mission managers about the various hardware elements currently being processed for flight.