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Chris Jaskolka, of Boeing SPACEHAB, and STS-95 Mission Specialists Pedro Duque of Spain, who represents the European Space Agency (ESA), and Stephen Robinson, Ph.D., test equipment inside the SPACEHAB in the SPACEHAB Payload Processing Facility (SPPF). 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.