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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The STS-95 crew takes time out from SPACEHAB familiarization activities at the SPACEHAB Payload Processing Facility, Cape Canaveral, to pose for a group portrait. Clockwise from the center front are Mission Specialist Scott E. Parazynski; Commander Curtis L. Brown Jr.; Mission Specialist Pedro Duque of Spain, representing the European Space Agency (ESA); Payload Specialist Chiaki Mukai, representing the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA); Pilot Steven W. Lindsey; Mission Specialist Stephen K. Robinson; and Payload Specialist John H. Glenn Jr., who also is a senator from Ohio. The mission, scheduled to launch Oct. 29, 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