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Members of the STS-95 crew pose in front of one of the T-38 jet aircraft that brought them to the Shuttle Landing Facility at KSC. From left, the members are Mission Specialist Scott E. Parazynski, M.D.; Pedro Duque of Spain, representing the European Space Agency (ESA); Mission Specialist Stephen K. Robinson, Ph.D.; Pilot Steven W. Lindsey; and Commander Curtis L. Brown Jr. The crew is participating in a familiarization tour of the SPACEHAB module and the equipment that will fly with them on the Space Shuttle Discovery scheduled to launch Oct. 29, 1998. The mission includes research payloads such as the Spartan solar- observing deployable spacecraft, the Hubble Space Telescope Orbital Systems Test Platform, the International Extreme Ultraviolet Hitchhiker, as well as the SPACEHAB single module with experiments on space flight and the aging process.