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Mission Specialist Pedro Duque with the European Space Agency poses with two Spanish officers.

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STS-95 Mission Specialist Pedro Duque of Spain (center), with the European Space Agency, poses with two high-ranking Spanish military officers. Duque was one of a crew of seven aboard orbiter Discovery which landed at the Shuttle Landing Facility at 12:04 p.m. EST after a successful mission spanning nine days and 3.6 million miles. The other STS-95 crew members are Mission Commander Curtis L. Brown Jr.; Pilot Steven W. Lindsey; Mission Specialists Stephen K. Robinson and Scott E. Parazynski; and Payload Specialists Chiaki Mukai, with the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA), and 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: Mission Specialist Pedro Duque with the European Space Agency poses with two Spanish officers.
  • Location: Kennedy Space Center, FL
  • Owner: KSC
  • Album: cbabir
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