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STS-95 crew members check out camera equipment they will use on the mission during a SPACEHAB familiarization tour and briefing at the SPACEHAB Payload Processing Facility in Cape Canaveral. Seated, from left, are Payload Specialist John H. Glenn Jr., who also is a senator from Ohio; Pilot Steven W. Lindsey; and Mission Specialist Scott E. Parazynski. Standing in back are Boeing employees LaDonna Neterer and Scott Clark. STS-95 will feature a variety of research payloads, including the Spartan solar-observing deployable spacecraft, the Hubble Space Telescope Orbital Systems Platform, the International Extreme Ultraviolet Hitchhiker, and experiments on space flight and the aging process. STS-95 is targeted for an Oct. 29 launch aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery.