Crew members get a briefing on the SPACEHAB module from Chris Jaskoika of Boeing at far right.

STS-95 crew members get a briefing on the SPACEHAB module from Chris Jaskoika of Boeing, in foreground at far right. From left, are Payload Specialist John H. Glenn Jr., who also is a senator from Ohio; Mission Specialist Pedro Duque of Spain, representing the European Space Agency (ESA); Mission Specialist Stephen K. Robinson; Pilot Steven W. Lindsey; Commander Curtis L. Brown Jr. (seated); Mission Specialist Scott E. Parazynski; and Payload Specialist Chiaki Mukai, representing the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA). STS-95 will feature a variety of research payloads, including the Spartan solar-observing deployable spacecraft, the Hubble Space Telescope Orbital Systems Platform, the International Extreme Ultraviolet Hitchhiker, and experiments on space flight and the aging process. STS-95 is targeted for an Oct. 29 launch aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery