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  Volume 6, Number 4     July/August 1998

Commercial Development Mission Update


Date* Flight Payload Sponsor/Coordinator
TBD STS-93 AEROGEL Marshall Space Flight Center
AXAF Commercial Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus-04** BioServe Space Technologies
Center for Microgravity Automation Technology (CMAT)
 
10/98 STS-95 Includes eight commercial development payloads: Commercial Space Centers and NASA Centers
BioTechHab Advanced Organic Separation Unit (ADSEP) Consortium for Materials Development In Space
(SPACEHAB short module) AEROGEL Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC)
  ASTROCULTURE™ Wisconsin Center for Space Automation & Robotics
  BioDyn-A Consortium for Materials Development In Space
  Commercial Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus BioServe Space Technologies
  Commercial ITA Biomedical Experiments Instrumentation Technology Associates, Inc. (ITA)
  Commercial Protein Crystal Growth-15 Center for Macromolecular Crystallography
  Microencapsulation Electrostatic Processing System Johnson Space Center/MSFC
     
Note: Sortie flights beyond STS-95, and Space Station Operations, under review at this time.

* As of September 1998
** In combination with National Institutes of Health payload NIH-B1 in support of Life Sciences Division requirements
Key: STS—Space Transportation System

AXAF—Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility

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