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STS-107 Payload Specialist Ilan Ramon,
from Israel, trains on equipment at SPACEHAB, Cape Canaveral,
Fla. 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