STS-95 Pilot Stephen Lindsey checks out equipment in the SPACEHAB Payload Processing Facility (SPPF), Cape Canaveral, while a representative of the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA) watches. STS-95 crew members have been participating in SPACEHAB familiarization in the SPPF. Scheduled to launch Oct. 29, the mission includes research payloads such as the Spartan solar-observing deployable spacecraft, the Hubble Space Telescope Orbital Systems Test Platform, the International Extreme Ultraviolet Hitchhiker, as well as the SPACEHAB single module with experiments on space flight and the aging process.
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STS-95 Pilot Stephen Lindsey checks out equipment in the SPACEHAB Payload Processing Facility (SPPF), Cape Canaveral, while a representative of the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA) watches. STS-95 crew members have been participating in SPACEHAB familiarization in the SPPF. Scheduled to launch Oct. 29, the mission includes research payloads such as the Spartan solar-observing deployable spacecraft, the Hubble Space Telescope Orbital Systems Test Platform, the International Extreme Ultraviolet Hitchhiker, as well as the SPACEHAB single module with experiments on space flight and the aging process.