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Rick "C.J." Sturckow, STS-128 mission commander, led his crew of six to the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, August 5, to begin three days of launch training. Flying in on T-38 jet trainers, Sturckow and mission specialist Patrick Forrester landed first under cloud-strewn skies. Mission specialists Jose Hernandez and the European Space Agency's Christer Fuglesang landed in separate planes just afterward. Pilot Kevin Ford and mission specialists Nicole Stott and John "Danny" Olivas arrived a few minutes later. The training the next few days includes M113 emergency vehicle practice and simulated shuttle landings in the Shuttle Training Aircraft. Discovery is being prepped at Pad 39A for its part during Friday's countdown rehearsal, when the astronauts will be strapped in while they and the launch teams at Kennedy and the Mission Control Houston, practice the complex choreography of liftoff.
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