{CaptionsBy}    Sherikon Space Systems

{LastEditor}    Kay Grinter

{ScannedBy}     Bionetics and NASA/KSC Public Affairs Office

{author}        NASA or National Aeronautics and Space Administration

{date}          02-Oct-1997

{description}   Participating in the Crew Equipment Integration Test (CEIT) at
                Kennedy Space Center is STS-87 Payload Specialist Leonid Kadenyuk
                of the National Space Agency of Ukraine (NSAU). Here, Cosmonaut
                Kadenyuk is inspecting flowers for pollination and fertilization,
                which will occur as part of the Collaborative Ukrainian
                Experiment, or CUE, aboard Columbia during its 16-day mission,
                scheduled to take off from KSC's Launch Pad 39-B on Nov. 19. The
                CUE experiment is a collection of 10 plant space biology
                experiments that will fly in Columbia's middeck and feature an
                educational component that involves evaluating the effects of
                microgravity on the pollinating Brassica rapa seedlings. Students
                in Ukrainian and American schools will participate in the same
                experiment on the ground and have several live opportunities to
                discuss the experiment with Kadenyuk in Space. Kadenyuk of the
                Ukraine will be flying his first Shuttle mission on STS-87.

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{title}         STS-87 Payload Specialist Kadenyuk participates in the CEIT for
                his mission

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