| Date* |
Flight |
Payload |
Sponsor/Coordinator |
| 9/97 |
STS-86 (launched)**
Shuttle/Mir-07 |
Commercial Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus
Liquid Phase Sintering (samples going to Mir)
Commercial Protein Crystal Growth ("sortie" mode)
|
BioServe Space Technologies
Consortium for Materials Development in Space
Center for Macromolecular Crystallography |
| 1/98 |
STS-89**
Shuttle/Mir-08 |
ASTROCULTURETM
X-ray Detector Test
|
Wisconsin Center for Space Automation and Robotics
Center for Macromolecular Crystallography |
| 8/98 |
STS-93
AXAF |
AEROGEL
(under consideration for assignment) |
Marshall Space Flight Center
|
| 10/98 |
STS-95
BioTechHab
(SPACEHAB
short module) |
To be defined; to include as many as
12 commercial development payloads
covering several areas of research, in
addition to other payloads |
Planned payloads represent six or more of the
Commercial Space Centers
|
| Key |
STS — Space Transportation System, AXA — Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility
|
