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Astronaut Claude Nicollier, mission specialist representing the European Space Agency (ESA), dons an underwater-adapted training version of the Shuttle extravehicular mobility unit (EMU). Nicollier was about to go into the water in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL). Nicollier and other astronauts assigned to STS-103 space walk duty are currently training for EVA chores they will handle when they make the third servicing visit to the Earth-orbiting Hubble Space Telescope (HST) since its deployment in April 1990.