Volume 5, Number 1     January/February 1997

Commercial Development Mission Update
Date*	Flight	Payload	Sponsor/Coordinator
1/97	STS-81	Commercial Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus (coming back from Mir) Materials in Devices As Superconductors (MIDAS) (coming back from Mir)	BioServe Space Technologies Langley Research Center
3/97	STS-83/MSL-01	Astro-Plant Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus	BioServe Space Technologies
9/97	STS-86* Shuttle/Mir-07	Commercial ITA Biomedical Experiments-01 (CIBX) Commercial Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus (CGBA) Liquid Phase Sintering (samples going to Mir) (Payloads go into Mir for extended operations)	Instrumentation Technology Associates, Inc. BioServe Space Technologies Consortium for Materials Development in Space
1/98	STS-89 Shuttle/Mir-08	Astroculture (TM) X-Ray Detector Test Materials In Devices As Superconductors (MIDAS)	Wisconsin Center for Space Automation & Robotics Center for Macromolecular Crystallography (UAB) Langley Research Center
Key *As of 1/97	.	STS — Space Transportation System MDA — Materials Dispersion Apparatus ITA — Instrumentation Technology Associates, Inc. MSL — Microgravity Science Laboratory UAB — University of Alabama at Birmingham	.