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Members of the STS-72 crew are participating in the Crew Equipment Interface Test (CEIT), which gives them the opportunity to get a hands-on look at the payloads they will be working with on-orbit. In the foreground, right, looking into the payload bay of the orbiter Endeavour are Johnson Space Center employee Glenda Laws and STS-72 Mission Specialist Winston Scott. At left, in a bucket suspended over the payload bay of the orbiter Endeavour are STS-72 Mission Specialists Leroy Chiao and Dave Barry, assisted by Lockheed Martin technicians Endeavour is undergoing preflight processing in the Orbiter Processing Facility. STS-72 is scheduled to be the first Shuttle launch of 1996. The primary payloads are the Space Flyer Unit-Retrieval and the Office of Aeronautics and Space Technology-Flyer (OAST-Flyer).