Stock Photo - 12/10/1999 ___ At SPACEHAB, in Titusville, Fla., STS_101 crew members take part in a Crew Equipment Interface Test CEIT. Here checking out the SPACEHAB Logistics Double Module are left Mission Specialists Mary Ellen Weber Ph.D., and right Edward Tsang Lu Ph.D.. Other members of the crew taking part in the CEIT are Commander James Donald Halsell Jr., Pilot Scott J. Doc Horowitz Ph.D., and Mission Specialists Jeffrey N. Williams, and Yuri Malenchenko and Boris W. Morukov, who are with the Russian Space Agency. The primary objective of the STS_101 mission is to complete the initial outfitting of the International Space Station, making it fully ready for the first long_term crew. The seven_member crew will transfer almost two tons of equipment and supplies from SPACEHAB. Additionally, they will unpack a shipment of supplies delivered earlier by a Russian Progress space tug and begin outfitting the newly arrived Zvezda Service Module. Three astronauts will perform two space walks to transfer and install parts of the Russian Strela cargo boom that are attached to SPACEHAB´s Integrated Cargo Container, connect utility cables between Zarya and Zvezda, and install a magnetometer/pole assembly on the Service Module. Additional activities for the STS_101 astronauts include working with the Space Experiment Module SEM_06 and the Mission to America´s Remarkable Schools MARS, two educational initiatives. STS_101 is scheduled for launch no earlier than March 16, 2000