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While preparing for what probably will be his last space flight, STS-80 Mission Specialist Story Musgrave appears pensive as he gazes skyward from Kennedy Space Center, where he and four other crew members are scheduled to lift off November 8 on the Space Shuttle Columbia. The STS-80 crew arrived at KSC to participate in the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test (TCDT), a dress rehearsal for launch. On STS- 80, Musgrave will equal American astronaut John Young's record of six space flights. At 61, he also will be the oldest human to fly in space. He was selected by NASA as a scientist-astronaut in 1967, but did not fly until the Space Shuttle program. He was a mission specialist on STS-6 in 1983, STS 51-F in 1985, STS-33 in 1989 and STS-44 in 1991, and the payload commander on STS-61 in 1993, the first Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission.