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Boeing SPACEHAB representatives Rick Rodriguez and Amy Haas watch STS-95 Mission Specialist Pedro Duque of Spain, representing the European Space Agency (ESA), maneuver inside a glove box which will be part of the mission, scheduled to launch Oct. 29. The STS-95 crew are participating in SPACEHAB familiarization at the SPACEHAB Payload Processing Facility. 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.