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STS-95 crew members (from left) Mission Specialist Scott E. Parazynski, Payload Specialists Chiaki Mukai and John H. Glenn Jr., Mission Specialist Pedro Duque (kneeling in front center), Commander Curtis L. Brown Jr., Mission Specialist Stephen K. Robinson and Pilot Steven W. Lindsey (kneeling at right) look at the inside of the SPACEHAB module at the SPACEHAB Payload Processing Facility, Cape Canaveral, Fla. The crew is on a familiarization tour of the module and 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.