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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- STS-92 Mission Specialist Koichi Wakata arrives at KSC’s Shuttle Landing Facility to take part in a Crew Equipment Interface Test. Wakata is with the Japanese space agency. He and other crew members Commander Brian Duffy, Pilot Pam Melroy and Mission Specialists Leroy Chiao, Jeff Wisoff, Michael Lopez-Alegria and Bill McArthur will spend time at SPACEHAB becoming familiar with the payload and equipment they will use on their mission to the International Space Station. The mission payload includes the Integrated Truss Structure Z1, an early exterior framework to allow the first U.S. solar arrays on a future flight to be temporarily installed on Unity for early power; Ku-band communication to support early science capability and U.S. television; and PMA-3 to provide a Shuttle docking port for solar array installation on the sixth ISS flight and Lab installation on the seventh ISS flight. STS-92 is scheduled to launch Oct. 5 from launch Pad 39A