A Decade of Life Sciences Experiment Unique Equipment Development for Spacelab and Space Station, 1990-1999

Abstract

Ames Research Center's Life Sciences Division has developed and flown an extensive array of spaceflight experiment unique equipment (EUE) during the last decade of the twentieth century. Over this ten year span, the EUE developed at ARC supported a vital gravitational biology flight research program executed on several different platforms, including the Space Shuttle, Spacelab, and Space Station Mir. This paper highlights some of the key EUE elements developed at ARC and flown during the period 1990-1 999. Resulting lessons leamed will be presented that can be applied to the development of similar equipment for the International Space Station.