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Missions

USML Glovebox 1 and 2 STS-50

  • Initial Flight Data Launch date: 1992-06-25International Designator:
    1992-034A

Abbreviated description
Primary payload on STS-50 was the United States Microgravity Laboratory-1 (USML-1), a manned Spacelab module with connecting tunnel to the orbiter crew compartment. USML-1 was an American national effort to advance microgravity research in a broad number of disciplines. The 13-day mission, the first so-called extended duration orbiter flight and the then longest space shuttle mission, also provided new information on the effects of long-term human stay in space. Examples of experiments conducted were: Crystal Growth Furnace, Drop Physics Module, Zeolite Crystal Growth, Protein Crystal Growth, Glovebox Facility, Space Acceleration Measurement System.

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Products
[1] USML Glovebox

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