
Members of the STS-95 crew file past photographers and reporters from all over the world as they enter the Kennedy Space Center Press Site Auditorium to participate in a media briefing before returning to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. From left to right, they are Mission Specialist Pedro Duque, with the European Space Agency (ESA); Payload Specialist Chiaki Mukai, with the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA); and Payload Specialist John H. Glenn Jr., a senator from Ohio and one of the original seven Project Mercury astronauts. The other STS-95 crew members participating in the briefing are Mission Commander Curtis L. Brown Jr., Pilot Steven W. Lindsey, Mission Specialist and Payload Commander Stephen K. Robinson, and Mission Specialist Scott E. Parazynski. The STS-95 mission ended with landing at Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility at 12:04 p.m. EST on Nov. 7. The mission included research payloads such as the Spartan-201 solar-observing deployable spacecraft, the Hubble Space Telescope Orbital Systems Test Platform, the International Extreme Ultraviolet Hitchhiker, as well as a SPACEHAB single module with experiments on space flight and the aging process
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November 8, 1998
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Kennedy Space Center, FL
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