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STS-95 Payload Specialist Chiaki Mukai (center), representing the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA) and Mission Commander Curtis L. Brown Jr. review equipment and documentation for the SPACEHAB at the SPACEHAB Payload Processing Facility (SPPF), Cape Canaveral. Onlookers behind them provide support. The STS-95 crew are participating in SPACEHAB familiarization at the SPPF. The mission, scheduled to launch Oct. 29, 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.