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Payload specialist Chiaki Naito-Mukai, attired in a training version of the Space Shuttle partial pressure launch and entry suit, prepares to participate in a crew training exercise in the systems integration facility at the Johnson Space Center (JSC). Representing Japan's National Space Development Agency (NASDA), Dr. Naito-Mukai will be making her second trip into space when the Space Shuttle Discovery launches in late October of this year.