Volume 6, Number 2     March/April 1998

Commercial Development Mission Update

Date* Flight Payload Sponsor/Coordinator 8/98 STS-93 AXAF AEROGEL Commerical Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus-04** Marshall Space Flight Center BioServe Space Technologies 10/98 STS-95 BioTechHab (SPACEHAB short module) Includes eight commercial development payloads: Advanced Organic Separation Unit (ADSEP) AEROGEL ASTROCULTURE™ BioDyn-A Commercial Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus Commmercial ITA Biomedical Experiments Commercial Protein Crystal Growth-15 Microencapsulation Electrostatic Processing System Commercial Space Centers and NASA Centers Consortium for Materials Development in Space Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) Wisconsin Center for Space Automation & Robotics Consortium for Materials Development in Space BioServe Space Technologies Instrumentation Technology Associates, Inc. Center for Macromolecular Crystallography Johnson Space Center/MSFC * ** Key As of 30 June 1998 In combination with National Institutes of Health payload NIH-B1 in support of Life Sciences Division requirements STS—Space Transportation System AFAX—Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility ITA—Instrumentation Technology Associates, Inc.