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With the mate-demate device as backdrop, six of the seven STS-83 crew members speak to the media after arriving at Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility prior to Space Shuttle Columbia's launch. From left to right, they are Payload Commander Janice E. Voss; Payload Specialists Roger K. Crouch and Gregory T. Linteris; Commander James D. Halsell, Jr.; Pilot Susan Leigh Still; and Mission Specialist Donald A. Thomas. Mission Specialist Michael L. Gernhardt arrived separately later in the afternoon