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STS-107 Mission Specialist Kalpana Chawla
looks over equipment at SPACEHAB, Cape Canaveral, Fla., during crew
training. STS-107 is a research mission. The primary payload is the
first flight of the SHI Research Double Module (SHI/RDM). The
experiments range from material sciences to life sciences (many
rats). Also part of the payload is the Fast Reaction Experiments
Enabling Science, Technology, Applications and Research (FREESTAR)
that incorporates eight high priority secondary attached shuttle
experiments: Mediterranean Israeli Dust Experiment (MEIDEX), Shuttle
Ozone Limb Sounding Experiment (SOLSE-2), Student Tracked Atmospheric
Research Satellite for Heuristic International Networking Experiment
(STARSHINE), Critical Viscosity of Xenon-2 (CVX-2), Solar Constant
Experiment-3 (SOLOCON-3), Prototype Synchrotron Radiation Detector
(PSRD), Low Power Transceiver (LPT), and Collisions Into Dust
Experiment -2 (COLLIDE-2). STS-107 is scheduled to launch in July 2002