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- From: ralex@lclark.edu (Roger Alexander)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: Sabatier Reactors.
- Keywords: microgravity
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.120416.1211@lclark.edu>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 12:04:16 GMT
- Article-I.D.: lclark.1993Jan28.120416.1211
- References: <1jutp0INNacf@digex.digex.com> <24JAN199320503892@judy.uh.edu>
- Organization: Lewis & Clark College, Portland OR
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- >Also for your information, NASA has been flying station precursors for
- >over ten years now. They are called Spacelab. Also the new SpaceHab will
- >be flying on STS-57 in April. These are dependent on Shuttle for
- >utilities, but are doing the most important SSF precursor work, which is
- >the experiments for microgravity. Also NASA has sponsored COMET, which will
- >fly in March, which is a free flying microgravity laboratory with a return
- >module for returning samples that have been through their process cycle.
-
- Do you know where on Internet I might find people discussing microgravity
- research in detail? What's the state of such research right now? Who's doing
- it, where, and how long has it been going on, that kind of thing...
-
- thanks...
-
- - Roger ralex@lclark.edu
-