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Members prepare for their return flight to the Johnson Space Center at the Skid Strip at Cape Canaveral Air Station.

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Washington, DC, United States

Members of the STS-95 crew and their families prepare for their return flight to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, at the Skid Strip at Cape Canaveral Air Station. 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 STS-95 crew consists of Mission Commander Curtis L. Brown Jr.; Pilot Steven W. Lindsey; Mission Specialist Scott E. Parazynski; Mission Specialist Stephen K. Robinson; Mission Specialist Pedro Duque, with the European Space Agency (ESA); Payload Specialist Chiaki Mukai, with the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA); and Payload Specialist John H. Glenn Jr., a senator from Ohio and one of the original seven Project Mercury astronauts. 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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  • Title: Members prepare for their return flight to the Johnson Space Center at the Skid Strip at Cape Canaveral Air Station.
  • Location: Kennedy Space Center, FL
  • Owner: KSC
  • Album: cbabir
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