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Fully covered by his orange launch and entry spacesuit, STS-80 Pilot Kent V. Rominger participates in the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test (TCDT) at Launch Pad 39B. He and the other four crew members are targeted for a Nov. 8 liftoff on the Space Shuttle Columbia. The STS-80 mission, the seventh and final Shuttle flight of 1996, will feature two spacewalks and the deployment, operation and retrieval of two scientific satellites, the Orbiting Retrievable Far and Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrometer-Shuttle Pallet Satellite-2 (ORFEUS-SPAS-2) and the Wake Shield Facility-3 (WSF-3).