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STS-107 Payload Specialist Ilan Ramon,
from Israel, pauses during an experiment at SPACEHAB, Cape Canaveral,
Fla., to talk with Mission Specialist Laurel Clark. STS-107 is a
research mission. The primary payload is the first flight of the SHI
Research Double Module (SHI/RDM). The experiments range from material
sciences to life sciences (many rats). Also part of the payload is the
Fast Reaction Experiments Enabling Science, Technology, Applications
and Research (FREESTAR) that incorporates eight high priority
secondary attached shuttle experiments: Mediterranean Israeli Dust
Experiment (MEIDEX), Shuttle Ozone Limb Sounding Experiment (SOLSE-2),
Student Tracked Atmospheric Research Satellite for Heuristic
International Networking Experiment (STARSHINE), Critical Viscosity of
Xenon-2 (CVX-2), Solar Constant Experiment-3 (SOLOCON-3), Prototype
Synchrotron Radiation Detector (PSRD), Low Power Transceiver (LPT),
and Collisions Into Dust Experiment -2 (COLLIDE-2). STS-107 is
scheduled to launch in July 2002.