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Astronaut Michel Tognini lowers himself from a simulated shuttle in trouble during an emergency egress training session in the Systems Integration Facility at the Johnson Space Center (JSC). Tognini, a mission specialist representing France's Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), will join four other astronauts for a scheduled five-day mission aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia in the spring of next year.