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In the SPACEHAB Payload Processing Facility (SPPF), Cape Canaveral, STS-95 Payload Specialist John Glenn (left), who is a senator from Ohio, checks out equipment with Payload Specialist Chiaki Mukai (right), M.D., Ph.D., who represents the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA) while KSC workers watch. STS-95 crew members have been participating in SPACEHAB familiarization in the SPPF. Scheduled to launch Oct. 29, 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.