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  2. STS-50 - Wikipedia

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    Three new major experiment facilities were flown on USML-1: the Crystal Growth Furnace, Surface Tension Driven Convection Experiment apparatus, and Drop Physics Module. An additional piece of new hardware on this flight was the versatile glovebox , which permitted "hands-on" manipulation of small experiments while isolating the crew from the ...

  3. Astronauts have taken 1,000 photos of NJ from space. Check ...

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    Astronauts on the International Space Station, which has been in orbit for decades, have collected a stunning array of images of New Jersey. Astronauts have taken 1,000 photos of NJ from space ...

  4. International Space Station - Wikipedia

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    Also installed during STS-134 was the 15 m (50 ft) Orbiter Boom Sensor System (OBSS), which had been used to inspect heat shield tiles on Space Shuttle missions and which can be used on the station to increase the reach of the MSS. [151] Staff on Earth or the ISS can operate the MSS components using remote control, performing work outside the ...

  5. ISS National Lab - Wikipedia

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    The ISS U.S. National Lab, commonly known as the ISS National Lab, is a U.S. government-funded national laboratory established on 30 December 2005 by the 2005 NASA Authorization Act.

  6. Scientific research on the International Space Station

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    [1] [2] The 2005 NASA Authorization Act designated the American segment of the International Space Station as a national laboratory with the goal of increasing the use of the ISS by other federal agencies and the private sector. [3] Research on the ISS improves knowledge about the effects of long-term space exposure on the human body.

  7. Holmdel Horn Antenna - Wikipedia

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    Bell Labs' horn antenna, April 2007. The horn antenna at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey, was constructed on Crawford Hill in 1959 to support Project Echo, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's passive communications satellites, [8] [5] which used large aluminized plastic balloons (satellite balloon) as reflectors to bounce radio signals from one point on the ...

  8. Space manufacturing - Wikipedia

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    Space manufacturing or In-space manufacturing (ISM in short) is the fabrication, assembly or integration of tangible goods beyond Earth's atmosphere (or more generally, outside a planetary atmosphere), involving the transformation of raw or recycled materials into components, products, or infrastructure in space, [3] where the manufacturing ...

  9. Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer - Wikipedia

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    The Neutron Star Interior Composition ExploreR (NICER) is a NASA telescope on the International Space Station, designed and dedicated to the study of the extraordinary gravitational, electromagnetic, and nuclear physics environments embodied by neutron stars, exploring the exotic states of matter where density and pressure are higher than in atomic nuclei.