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STS-95 crew members inspect equipment in the SPACEHAB trainer at the SPACEHAB Payload Processing Facility in Cape Canaveral. From left, are Mission Specialist Stephen K. Robinson (partially obscured); Mission Specialist Pedro Duque of Spain, who represents the European Space Agency (ESA); and Payload Specialist Chiaki Mukai, who represents the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA). Standing in back is Mission Specialist Scott E. Parazynski. STS-95 will feature a variety of research payloads, including the Spartan solar-observing deployable spacecraft, the Hubble Space Telescope Orbital Systems Platform, the International Extreme Ultraviolet Hitchhiker, and experiments on space flight and the aging process. STS-95 is targeted for an Oct. 29 launch aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery.