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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the SPACEHAB Payload Processing Facility (SPPF) a representative of the National Space Agency of Japan (NASDA) and STS-95 Mission Specialist Scott Parazynski, M.D. (right), check out BRIC (Biological Research in Canisters) experiments to be part of the mission scheduled to launch Oct. 29. STS-95 crew members have been participating in SPACEHAB familiarization in the SPPF. The mission includes research payloads such as the Spartan solar-observing deployable spacecraft, the Hubble Space Telescope Orbital Systems Test Platform, the International Extreme Ultraviolet Hitchhiker, as well as the SPACEHAB single module with experiments on space flight and the aging process