The Microgravity Research Experiments (MICREX) Data Base

NASA/TM-108523, Winter, C.A. and Jones, J.C., The Microgravity Research Experiments (MICREX) Data Base, Space Sciences Laboratory, Science and Engineering Directorate. NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, AL 35812 and *University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), November 1996, pp. 2593, Format(s): PDF 2k

An electronic data base identifying over 800 fluids and materials processing experiments performed in a low-gravity environment has been created at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center.

The compilation, called MICREX (MICrogravity Research Experiments), was designed to document all such experimental efforts performed (1) on U.S. manned space vehicles, (2) on payloads deployed from U.S. manned space vehicles, and (3) on all domestic and international sounding rockets (excluding those of China and the former U.S.S.R.). Data available on most experiments include (1) principal and co-investigators, (2) low-gravity mission, (3) processing facility, (4) experimental objectives and results, (5) identifying key words, (6) sample materials, (7) applications of the processed materials/research area, (8) experiment descriptive publications, and (9) contacts for more information concerning the experiment.

This technical memorandum (1) summarizes the historical interest in reduced-gravity fluid dynamics, (2) describes the experimental facilities employed to examine reduced gravity fluid flow, (3) discusses the importance of a low-gravity fluids and materials processing data base, (4) describes the MICREX data base format and computational World Wide Web access procedures, and (5) documents (in hard-copy form) the descriptions of the first 600 fluids and materials processing experiments entered into MICREX.

This document is available in 4 volumes

Contents

• Volume 1 (377 pp., 20MB)
• Volume 2 (1,008 pp., 62MB)
• Volume 3 (701 pp., 42MB)
• Volume 4 (507 pp., 30MB)