Newspace Wigley

Flight Systems Implementation Branch  Code SCF Space Biosciences Division

TIMELINE OF ARC LIFE SCIENCES SPACEFLIGHT  MISSIONS Bion

1960’s

Gemini 3, 8, 12

1970’s

Foton

1980’s

1990’s

2000’s

Space Shuttle

Apollo 17 Skylab 3

Supported to date 56 STS and 7 ISS missions  Over 165 Principal Investigators  Diverse model specimens studied Mammalian tissue culture, microbes (prokaryotic and  eukaryotic), plants, primates, avian eggs, amphibians,  lizards, aquatic species, insects, snails, and avian eggs

ISS

NASA/MIR NanoSatellites   

FLIGHT SYSTEMS IMPLEMENTATION BRANCH

♦ Payload/Project Management,

engineering, operations and integration • International Space Station (ISS) • STS: Middeck, SpaceHab, Spacelab • Russian: MIR, Foton, Bion ♦ Support for comprehensive studies

• Ground based research • Flight analogs • Flight experiments

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EXPERIMENT DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

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