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Launch date November 16.09.<br> | |||
Launch date November 16.09. | |||
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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space, simulation, artificial, controlled environment, habitat, migration, containment, alien.<br> | |||
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[[GMU:Space Is The Place/projects|Back to the list of projects]] | [[GMU:Space Is The Place/projects|Back to the list of projects]] | ||
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