NASA/TM-4737, Curreri, Peter and McCauley*, Dannah E., Second United States Microgravity Payload: One Year Report , Space Sciences Laboratory, Science and Engineering Directorate. NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, AL 35812 and *University of Alabama in Huntsville, April 1996, pp. 185, Format(s): PDF 2453k |
The second United States Microgravity Payload (USMP-2), flown in March 1994, carried four major microgravity experiments plus a sophisticated accelerometer system. The USMP program is designed to accommodate experiments requiring extensive resources short of a full Spacelab mission. The four USMP-2 experiments dealt with understanding fundamental aspects of materials behavior, three with the formation of crystals from melts and one with
the critical point of a noble gas. This successful, scientifically rich mission also demonstrated
telescience operations.
| Keywords: | microgravity, usmp, crystal growth, critical point, metal alloys, seebeck, peltier, telescience |
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| CASI Document ID Number: | 96N30996 |
| Subjects: | Engineering: Structural Mechanics: Structural Tests and Reliability |
| ID Code: | 328 |
| Deposited On: | 28 June 2002 |