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NASA image: MISSE Seed Experiment Work
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Feb 11, 2021

MISSE Seed Experiment Work

Jeffrey Richards, a project science coordinator working with the Exploration Research and Technology programs at...

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NASA image: MISSE Seed Experiment Work
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Feb 11, 2021

MISSE Seed Experiment Work

Jeffrey Richards, a project science coordinator working with the Exploration Research and Technology programs at...

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NASA image: MISSE Seed Experiment Work
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Feb 11, 2021

MISSE Seed Experiment Work

Jeffrey Richards, a project science coordinator working with the Exploration Research and Technology programs at...

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NASA image: KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The Microgravity Science Laboratory-1 (MSL-1) Spacelab module is installed into the payload bay of the Space Shuttle Orbiter Columbia in Orbiter Processing Facility 1. The Spacelab long crew transfer tunnel that leads from the orbiter's crew airlock to the module is also aboard, as well as the Hitchhiker Cryogenic Flexible Diode (CRYOFD) experiment payload, which is attached to the right side of Columbia's payload bay. During the scheduled 16-day STS-83 mission, the MSL-1 will be used to test some of the hardware, facilities and procedures that are planned for use on the International Space Station while the flight crew conducts combustion, protein crystal growth and materials processing experiments.
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Feb 13, 1997

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The Microgravity Science Laboratory-1 (MSL-1) Spacelab module is installed into the payload bay of the Space Shuttle Orbiter Columbia in Orbiter Processing Facility 1. The Spacelab long crew transfer tunnel that leads from the orbiter's crew airlock to the module is also aboard, as well as the Hitchhiker Cryogenic Flexible Diode (CRYOFD) experiment payload, which is attached to the right side of Columbia's payload bay. During the scheduled 16-day STS-83 mission, the MSL-1 will be used to test some of the hardware, facilities and procedures that are planned for use on the International Space Station while the flight crew conducts combustion, protein crystal growth and materials processing experiments.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The Microgravity Science Laboratory-1 (MSL-1) Spacelab module is installed into the...

NASA image: KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The Microgravity Science Laboratory-1 (MSL-1) Spacelab module is installed into the payload bay of the Space Shuttle Orbiter Columbia in Orbiter Processing Facility 1. The Spacelab long crew transfer tunnel that leads from the orbiter's crew airlock to the module is also aboard, as well as the Hitchhiker Cryogenic Flexible Diode (CRYOFD) experiment payload, which is attached to the right side of Columbia's payload bay. During the scheduled 16-day STS-83 mission, the MSL-1 will be used to test some of the hardware, facilities and procedures that are planned for use on the International Space Station while the flight crew conducts combustion, protein crystal growth and materials processing experiments.
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Feb 13, 1997

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The Microgravity Science Laboratory-1 (MSL-1) Spacelab module is installed into the payload bay of the Space Shuttle Orbiter Columbia in Orbiter Processing Facility 1. The Spacelab long crew transfer tunnel that leads from the orbiter's crew airlock to the module is also aboard, as well as the Hitchhiker Cryogenic Flexible Diode (CRYOFD) experiment payload, which is attached to the right side of Columbia's payload bay. During the scheduled 16-day STS-83 mission, the MSL-1 will be used to test some of the hardware, facilities and procedures that are planned for use on the International Space Station while the flight crew conducts combustion, protein crystal growth and materials processing experiments.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The Microgravity Science Laboratory-1 (MSL-1) Spacelab module is installed into the...

NASA image: Space Shuttle Projects
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Aug 10, 2002

Space Shuttle Projects

Space Shuttle Orbiter Discovery lifted off for the STS-105 mission on August 10, 2001. The main purpose of the...

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NASA image: Space Shuttle Projects
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Aug 19, 2001

Space Shuttle Projects

Space Shuttle Orbiter Discovery lifted off for the STS-105 mission on August 10, 2001. The main purpose of the...

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NASA image: View of MISSE-8 taken during a session of EVA
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Jul 12, 2011

View of MISSE-8 taken during a session of EVA

iss028e016106 (7/12/2011) --- View of a Materials on International Space Station Experiment - 8 (MISSE-8) installed...

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NASA image: View of MISSE taken during Expedition Six
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Jan 1, 2003

View of MISSE taken during Expedition Six

ISS006-348-019 (January 2003) ---- Materials International Space Station Experiment (MISSE), a suitcase-sized...

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NASA image: KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Space Life Sciences Lab, Lanfang Levine, with Dynamac Corp., transfers material into a sample bottle for analysis. She is standing in front of new equipment in the lab that will provide gas chromatography and mass spectrometry. The equipment will enable analysis of volatile compounds, such as from plants. The 100,000 square-foot facility houses labs for NASA’s ongoing research efforts, microbiology/microbial ecology studies and analytical chemistry labs. Also calling the new lab home are facilities for space flight-experiment and flight-hardware development, new plant growth chambers, and an Orbiter Environment Simulator that will be used to conduct ground control experiments in simulated flight conditions for space flight experiments. The SLS Lab, formerly known as the Space Experiment Research and Processing Laboratory or SERPL, provides space for NASA’s Life Sciences Services contractor Dynamac Corporation, Bionetics Corporation, and researchers from the University of Florida. NASA’s Office of Biological and Physical Research will use the facility for processing life sciences experiments that will be conducted on the International Space Station. The SLS Lab is the magnet facility for the International Space Research Park at KSC being developed in partnership with Florida Space Authority.
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Jan 5, 2004

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Space Life Sciences Lab, Lanfang Levine, with Dynamac Corp., transfers material into a sample bottle for analysis. She is standing in front of new equipment in the lab that will provide gas chromatography and mass spectrometry. The equipment will enable analysis of volatile compounds, such as from plants. The 100,000 square-foot facility houses labs for NASA’s ongoing research efforts, microbiology/microbial ecology studies and analytical chemistry labs. Also calling the new lab home are facilities for space flight-experiment and flight-hardware development, new plant growth chambers, and an Orbiter Environment Simulator that will be used to conduct ground control experiments in simulated flight conditions for space flight experiments. The SLS Lab, formerly known as the Space Experiment Research and Processing Laboratory or SERPL, provides space for NASA’s Life Sciences Services contractor Dynamac Corporation, Bionetics Corporation, and researchers from the University of Florida. NASA’s Office of Biological and Physical Research will use the facility for processing life sciences experiments that will be conducted on the International Space Station. The SLS Lab is the magnet facility for the International Space Research Park at KSC being developed in partnership with Florida Space Authority.

NASA image: iss061e092274
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Dec 18, 2019

iss061e092274

iss061e092274 (12/18/2019) --- A view of the Materials Science Laboratory (MSL) Sample Cartridge Assembly (SCA) in...

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NASA image: MISSE 5 PEC on P6
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Aug 6, 2005

MISSE 5 PEC on P6

s114e7352 (8/6/2005) --- A view of the Materials International Space Station Experiment (MISSE) 5 Passive Experiment...

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NASA image: Fly around of ISS
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Mar 7, 2011

Fly around of ISS

s133e010858 (3/7/2011) --- The Materials International Space Station Experiment-7 (MISSE-7) is a test bed for...

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NASA image: Fly around of ISS
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Mar 7, 2011

Fly around of ISS

s133e010727 (3/7/2011) --- The Materials International Space Station Experiment-7 (MISSE-7) is a test bed for...

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NASA image: s133e010099
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Mar 7, 2011

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s133e010099 (3/7/2011) --- The Materials International Space Station Experiment-7 (MISSE-7) is a test bed for...

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NASA image: View of MISSE-8 taken during a session of EVA
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Jul 12, 2011

View of MISSE-8 taken during a session of EVA

ISS028-E-016107 (12 July 2011) --- This medium close-up image, recorded during a July 12 spacewalk, shows the...

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NASA image: View of MISSE-8 taken during a session of EVA
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Jul 12, 2011

View of MISSE-8 taken during a session of EVA

ISS028-E-016111 (12 July 2011) --- This close-up image, recorded during a July 12 spacewalk, shows the Materials on...

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NASA image: Flyaround view of the ISS taken from STS-123 Space Shuttle Endeavor
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Mar 25, 2008

Flyaround view of the ISS taken from STS-123 Space Shuttle Endeavor

s123e009655 (3/25/2008) --- View of Materials International Space Station Experiment (MISSE) 6 Passive Experiment...

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NASA image: MISSE PEC during Expedition 13
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Aug 3, 2006

MISSE PEC during Expedition 13

iss013e63407 (8/3/2006) --- View of a Materials International Space Station Experiment (MISSE) Passive Experiment...

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NASA image: MISSE-FF
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Jan 16, 2019

MISSE-FF

iss058e003972 (1/26/2019) --- Photo documentation of the Materials ISS Experiment Flight Facility (MISSE-FF)...

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NASA image: iss059e036747
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Apr 26, 2019

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iss059e036747 (4/26/2019) --- --- Photo documentation of the Materials ISS Experiment Flight Facility (MISSE-FF)...

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NASA image: EVA 22 taken with camera 2
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Jul 9, 2013

EVA 22 taken with camera 2

iss036e016736 (7/9/2013) --- Close-up view of the Optical Reflector Materials Experiment III Ram/Wake (ORMatE-III...

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NASA image: KSC-07pd3321
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Nov 14, 2007

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Orbiter Processing Facility, the second of two Materials International Space...

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NASA image: KSC-07pd3315
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Nov 14, 2007

KSC-07pd3315

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Orbiter Processing Facility, technicians get ready to remove one of two...

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NASA's Image and Video Library contains over 140,000 publicly accessible images, videos, and audio files spanning the agency's entire history, from the Mercury program of the 1960s to the latest James Webb Space Telescope discoveries. The collection grows daily as new missions capture imagery and archival materials are digitized. Individual mission archives, such as Mars rover photos, contain hundreds of thousands of additional images.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Space Life Sciences Lab, Lanfang Levine, with Dynamac Corp., transfers material...

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