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These are the plans and models for a simulated version of that habitat.
Launch date November 16.09.<br>
 
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By 'participating' in the experiment myself, situating the larvae into an 'artificial habitat', I was in a position to observe first hand the lifespan of the butterflies in a way similar to the school children. I thought the butterflies were relatively resilient considering their predicament. As environmental sensors, the butterflies soon revealed the shortcomings of such a situation, and I wondered how well the fact that this was so totally under acknowledged was going over with the students. How great was our our inability to recognize the needs of another species but of our own.
 
Migration to space is at a level relatively even fewer can appreciate. Thinking about this distance and this 'alien-ness', I wondered about these artificial habitats; anything that has been modified or made by people, habitats have been constructed and employed to domesticate and house, observe, experiment, and transport life. How do we fabricate this ideal place in relation to ourselves, to others, the environment, in essence, in relation to nature, -something we have gradually constructed as being outside of or other than ourselves.
 
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Launch date November 16.09.09<br>
STS-129 mission to ISS aboard space shuttle Atlantis<br>
STS-129 mission to ISS aboard space shuttle Atlantis<br>
Vanessa Cardui animal astronauts in space<br>
Vanessa Cardui animal astronauts in space<br>
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Fluorescent, LED, electroluminescent and infared lighting available <br>
Fluorescent, LED, electroluminescent and infared lighting available <br>
Multiple levels of containment meet NASA safety reqs.
Multiple levels of containment meet NASA safety reqs.
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Both flight certified scientific insert (or payload) taken aboard the shuttle to house the larvae and the module at the ISS called the Commercial Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus were developed at BioServe Space Technologies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. "Our…competency is enabling the conduct of space life sciences research in a highly regulated environment in such a way as to make the complicated process completely transparent to the investigator..." The module would provide the necessary climate to sustain life in microgravity and featured a self-contained camera that would transmit images every 30 minutes during daylight hours to the web.
The butterflies in space mission used 'life in space' as a theme to engage scientific investigation. A migration to space is at a level relatively few can appreciate. Non-human biological organism were the first beings to experience the conditions of space for the purpose of biotechnological research. The effects of the expected space vacuum, wide temperature extremes, and cosmic radiation of the space frontier, all effect how living systems might adapt to and function in the weightless of orbital space. The experiment would examine the biological development and behaviours of the species Vanessa Cardui for the duration of their lifespan in outer space.
The project was sponsored by the National Space Biomedical Research Institute in the fall of 2009 and concluded December 10.09.
STS-129, the 31st shuttle mission to the ISS was slated to be the final shuttle crew rotation flight to or from the Space Station.
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Latest revision as of 11:08, 30 May 2012

Launch date November 16.09.
STS-129 mission to ISS aboard space shuttle Atlantis
Vanessa Cardui animal astronauts in space
A project by NASA & NSBRI [national space biomedical research institute]
Research Applications:
Small organism study
General Features:
Passive gas exchange with cabin air (o2, co2, rH)
Habitats packaged to provide temperature, rH and experiment-specific sensors for environmental monitoring
Thermally controlled time course experiments
Imaging capabilities with near real-time downlink
Manual or automated config. control for activation and termination
Fluorescent, LED, electroluminescent and infared lighting available
Multiple levels of containment meet NASA safety reqs.

Both flight certified scientific insert (or payload) taken aboard the shuttle to house the larvae and the module at the ISS called the Commercial Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus were developed at BioServe Space Technologies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. "Our…competency is enabling the conduct of space life sciences research in a highly regulated environment in such a way as to make the complicated process completely transparent to the investigator..." The module would provide the necessary climate to sustain life in microgravity and featured a self-contained camera that would transmit images every 30 minutes during daylight hours to the web.

The butterflies in space mission used 'life in space' as a theme to engage scientific investigation. A migration to space is at a level relatively few can appreciate. Non-human biological organism were the first beings to experience the conditions of space for the purpose of biotechnological research. The effects of the expected space vacuum, wide temperature extremes, and cosmic radiation of the space frontier, all effect how living systems might adapt to and function in the weightless of orbital space. The experiment would examine the biological development and behaviours of the species Vanessa Cardui for the duration of their lifespan in outer space.

The project was sponsored by the National Space Biomedical Research Institute in the fall of 2009 and concluded December 10.09.

STS-129, the 31st shuttle mission to the ISS was slated to be the final shuttle crew rotation flight to or from the Space Station.

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space, simulation, artificial, controlled environment, habitat, migration, containment, alien.

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