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In the Multi-Payload Processing
Facility, workers check the movement of a GetAway Special canister
(GAS can) being lowered onto the Hitchhiker Bridge. The bridge is a
carrier for the Fast Reaction Experiments Enabling Science,
Technology, Applications and Research (FREESTAR) that incorporates
eight high priority secondary attached shuttle experiments on mission
STS-107. A research mission, the primary payload is the first flight
of the SHI Research Double Module (SHI/RDM), also known as
SPACEHAB. The experiments range from material sciences to life
sciences (many rats). STS-107 is scheduled to launch July 11, 2002