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During Crew Equipment Interface Test (CEIT), STS-95 crew members watch as the Spartan payload is moved inside the Multi-Payload Processing Facility. At left is Keith Johnson, with United Space Alliance, Mission Specialist Stephen K. Robinson, and Mission Specialist Pedro Duque, with the European Space Agency. The CEIT gives astronauts an opportunity for a hands-on look at the payloads and equipment with which they will be working on orbit. The launch of the STS-95 mission is scheduled for Oct. 29, 1998. 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.