Location
Howard Johnson Plaza-Hotel, Columbia/Enterprise Rooms
Start Date
21-4-1992 2:00 PM
Description
SPACEHAB, Inc. is developing a pressurized laboratory which fits in the forward portion of the Space Shuttle payload bay and connects to the crew compartment through an airlock. SPACEHAB's standard middeck type lockers offer crew-tended access to the microgravity environment for experimentation, technology development, and small-scale production. NASA's Office of Commercial Programs has contracted with SPACEHAB to lease two-thirds of the SPACEHAB's module capacity over the first six missions for commercial research initiatives. Use of SPACEHAB modules also offers an economical intermediate step prior to making a full commitment for commercial use of Space Station Freedom.
Paper Session I-B - Spacehab: Augmenting the Shuttle's Middeck Capacity
Howard Johnson Plaza-Hotel, Columbia/Enterprise Rooms
SPACEHAB, Inc. is developing a pressurized laboratory which fits in the forward portion of the Space Shuttle payload bay and connects to the crew compartment through an airlock. SPACEHAB's standard middeck type lockers offer crew-tended access to the microgravity environment for experimentation, technology development, and small-scale production. NASA's Office of Commercial Programs has contracted with SPACEHAB to lease two-thirds of the SPACEHAB's module capacity over the first six missions for commercial research initiatives. Use of SPACEHAB modules also offers an economical intermediate step prior to making a full commitment for commercial use of Space Station Freedom.
