
STS-95 Payload Specialist Chiaki Mukai (left), with the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA) and Mission Specialist Scott E. Parazynski (right) look over equipment being used on an experiment with toadfish on mission STS-95. The fish will be electronically monitored to determine the effect of gravitational changes on the inner-ear system. Mukai and Parazynski and other crewmembers were making final preparations for launch, targeted for liftoff at 2 p.m. on Oct. 29. The STS-95 crew also includes Mission Commander Curtis L. Brown Jr., Pilot Steven W. Lindsey, Mission Specialist Stephen K. Robinson, Payload Specialist John H. Glenn Jr., senator from Ohio, and Mission Specialist Pedro Duque, with the European Space Agency (ESA). The mission is expected to last 8 days, 21 hours and 49 minutes, returning to KSC at 11:49 a.m. EST on Nov. 7
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KSC-98pc1420
Date Created
October 27, 1998
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KSC
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Location
Kennedy Space Center, FL
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