
During a break in the Crew Equipment Interface Test (CEIT) at KSC, STS-95 Mission Commander Curtis L. Brown Jr. talks to Mark King, a Space Shuttle midbody mechanical technician with United Space Alliance, and his daughter Jilianne. King is working in the Orbiter Processing Facility Bay 2 on STS-95 payloads. The CEIT gives astronauts an opportunity for a hands-on look at the payloads and equipment which they will be working with on orbit. The launch of the STS-95 mission is scheduled for Oct. 29, 1998, on the Space Shuttle Discovery. 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
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KSC-98pc1025
Date Created
September 2, 1998
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KSC
Media Type
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Location
Kennedy Space Center, FL
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