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  Volume 6, Number 5     September/October 1998

Commercial Development Mission Update


Date* Flight Payload Sponsor/Coordinator
1/99 STS-93 AEROGEL Marshall Space Flight Center
AXAF Commercial Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus-04** BioServe Space Technologies
     
10/98 STS-95 Included eight commercial development payloads: Commercial Space Centers and NASA Centers
BioTechHab Advanced Organic Separation Unit (ADSEP) Consortium for Materials Development In Space
(SPACEHAB AEROGEL Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC)
short module) 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 October 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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