
At the Skid Strip at Cape Canaveral Air Station, members of the STS-95 crew and their families prepare for their return flight to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Shown are (left to right) Mission Specialist Scott E. Parazynski, Mission Specialist Stephen K. Robinson; Payload Specialist Chiaki Mukai, with the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA); Pilot Steven W. Lindsey (with his daughter, Jill); Payload Specialist John H. Glenn Jr., a senator from Ohio and one of the original seven Project Mercury astronauts; Mission Commander Curtis L. Brown Jr.; and Mission Specialist Pedro Duque of Spain, with the European Space Agency (ESA). 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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