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As Return to Flight nears, the STS-114 Shuttle Crew arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center

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Jan. 7 to checkout newly arrived flight hardware.

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They viewed the redesigned External Tank -- which arrived two days earlier

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and is undergoing inspection and testing in the Vehicle Assembly Building.

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They also got a chance to see the new Orbiter Boom Sensor System

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that will fly on their Return to Flight mission as part of new safety measures.

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Led by Commander Eileen Collins, the crew said they are ready to fly.

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"It's important to say it's time for us to go fly."

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The crew discussed their mission, which will include revamped hardware geared at making the flight safer.

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"Well, first of all, if it wasn't safe, I wouldn't get on it. So I think that's pretty obvious.

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And I have the utmost confidence that this is going to be an extremely safe flight.

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This is the kind of stuff that when we go back to the Moon and on to Mars, we're going to have to have astronauts

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that are really good hands-on mechanical engineering kind of guys and gals

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that can go in there and fix things and we're doing that on the Space Station right now."

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They see the mission as part of the greater NASA Vision.

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