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At SPACEHAB, Cape Canaveral, Fla.,
Mission Specialist Laurel Blair Salton Clark practices an experiment
while Commander Rick Douglas Husband and Mission Specialist Kalpana
Chawla observe. They and other crew members Pilot William C. McCool;
Payload Commander Michael P. Anderson; and Mission Specialists David
M. Brown and Ilan Ramon, of Israel, are at SPACEHAB for Crew Equipment
Interface Test (CEIT) activities. The CEIT enables the crew to perform
certain flight operations, operate experiments in a flight-like
environment, evaluate stowage locations and obtain additional exposure
to specific experiment operations. As a research mission, STS-107 will
carry the Spacehab Double Module in its first research flight into
space and a broad collection of experiments ranging from material
science to life science. STS-107 is scheduled for launch May 23, 2002