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STS-95 Mission Specialist Pedro Duque of Spain, representing the European Space Agency (ESA), checks out equipment inside the SPACEHAB module at the SPACEHAB Payload Processing Facility (SPPF), Cape Canaveral. 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.