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In the environmental chamber known as the white room, an eager STS-95 Payload Specialist John H. Glenn Jr., senator from Ohio, has his flight suit checked by white room crew members Danny Wyatt (left to right), Chris Meinert and Travis Thompson (foreground) for entry into the Space Shuttle Discovery for his second flight into space after 36 years. The STS-95 mission, targeted for launch at 2 p.m. EST on Oct. 29, is expected to last 8 days, 21 hours and 49 minutes, and return to KSC at 11:49 a.m. EST on Nov. 7.