After removing our dewar temperature readout cables, the last thing we do is install shorting plugs in the connectors where the cables were plugged in. (This is to protect the instrument from electric charge, which could build up from the ionized oxygen in low earth orbit). Here Juli Lander is inspecting one of the shorting plugs before handing it to Yumiki Ochi, who will reach through the hole to install it. Notice the lanyard attached to Ochi-san, to prevent the possibility of dropping the shorting plug inside the nose fairing.
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