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The STS-92 crew poses for a photograph in the White Room, the environmentally controlled chamber on the orbiter access arm that provides entry for the crew into the orbiter. Standing, left to right, are Mission Specialists Peter J.K. “Jeff” Wisoff and Michael E. Lopez-Alegria; Commander Brian Duffy; Pilot Pamela Ann Melroy; and Mission Specialists William S. McArthur Jr. and Leroy Chiao. Crouching in front is Mission Specialist Koichi Wakata of Japan. The crew is at KSC for Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test activities that provide emergency egress training, opportunities to inspect the mission payload, and take part in a simulated countdown. STS-92 is scheduled to launch Oct. 5 at 9:38 p.m. EDT on the fifth flight to the International Space Station. It will carry two elements of the Space Station, the Integrated Truss Structure Z1 and the third Pressurized Mating Adapter. The mission is also the 100th flight in the Shuttle program