Finding their sea legs, members of the launch team get down to business with a full launch rehearsal, one of several rehearsals over the course of the mission, that serve to test and fine tune everyone on the team. Here at the console (L-R) are John Bergmann, Intelsat; Bill Hayes, Space Systems/Loral; and Sea Launch payload integration managers Todd Schilb and Jason McLaughlin.

Also at the console on today's rehearsal are (L-R) Oxsana Tchernysheva, Energia LOX loading operator, and her supervisor, Natalia Obyednova, with others overseeing rocket operations in the background.

Don Deming, operations procedure specialist, assists representive from the Federal Aviation Administration, Charles Brinkman, in the Launch Control Center.

Michal Harting, DTSA monitor, pauses for the camera during the rehearsal.

(L-R) Vladimir Kukharenko, mechanical engineer for Yuzhnoye; Ergeniy Volodin, instrumentation engineer for Energia; and Gregory Protassovsky, instrumentation engineer for KBTM, during today's rehearsal.

(L-R) Elena Turbina and Yuriy Kozlov from KBTM, Viktor Mironov from Energia, and Dmytro Boyko from Yuzhnoye monitor thermostating and conditions of the Zenit-3SL rocket during rehearsal.

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