Volume 5, Number 2     March/April 1997

Commercial Development Mission Update

Date* Flight Payload Sponsor/Coordinator 3/97 STS-83 MSL-01 Astro-Plant Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus Vapor Diffusion Apparatus (microgravity research including two proteins for structure-based drug design related to Chagas' Disease) BioServe Space Technologies Center for Macromolecular Crystallography 9/97 STS-86** Shuttle/Mir-07 Commercial Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus Liquid Phase Sintering (samples going to Mir) BioServe Space Technologies Consortium for Materials Development in Space 1/98 STS-89** Shuttle/Mir-08 Shuttle/Mir-08 Materials In Devices As Superconductors ASTROCULTURETM X-ray Detector Test Langley Research Center Wisconsin Center for Space Automation and Robotics Center for Macromolecular Crystallography Key STS — Space Transportation System

*As of March 1997

**These payloads go over to Mir for extended operations of about four months and return on the next Shuttle/Mir mission.