Volume 5, Number 6     November/December 1997

Commercial Development Mission Update

Date* Flight Payload Sponsor/Coordinator 1/98 STS-89 Shuttle/Mir-08 ASTROCULTURE(™)** X-ray Detector Test** Commercial Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus*** Liquid Phase Sintering (samples–***) Wisconsin Center for Space Automation and Robotics Center for Macromolecular Crystallography BioServe Space Technologies Consortium for Materials Development in Space 5/98 STS-91 Shuttle/Mir-09 Commercial Protein Crystal Growth (CPCG-11) Shuttle/Mir-09 (Protein Crystallization Facility configuration, "sortie" mode) BioServe Space Technologies Consortium for Materials Development in Space 8/98 STS-93 AXAF AEROGEL Marshall Space Flight Center X-ray Detector Test (under consideration for assignment) 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 Centers and NASA Centers with an emphasis on commercial development of space in the area of biotechnology Key STS — Space Transportation System

*As of 9 January 1998

**These payloads will be accommodated on Mir for extended operations of about four months and will be returned on Shuttle/Mir Mission-09.

***These payloads were launched on STS-86 (Shuttle/Mir Mission-07) and are returning from extended operations on Mir.