Stock Photo - 12/19/2001 _ _ STS_107 Payload Specialist Ilan Ramon, from Israel, works on an experiment at SPACEHAB, Cape Canaveral, Fla. With him is Mission Specialist Laurel Clark. STS_107 is a research mission. The primary payload is the first flight of the SHI Research Double Module SHI/RDM. The experiments range from material sciences to life sciences many rats. Also part of the payload is the Fast Reaction Experiments Enabling Science, Technology, Applications and Research FREESTAR that incorporates eight high priority secondary attached shuttle experiments: Mediterranean Israeli Dust Experiment MEIDEX, Shuttle Ozone Limb Sounding Experiment SOLSE_2, Student Tracked Atmospheric Research Satellite for Heuristic International Networking Experiment STARSHINE, Critical Viscosity of Xenon_2 CVX_2, Solar Constant Experiment_3 SOLOCON_3, Prototype Synchrotron Radiation Detector PSRD, Low Power Transceiver LPT, and Collisions Into Dust Experiment _2 COLLIDE_2. STS_107 is scheduled to launch in July 2002