The " Spacelab Pallet-Deployable 1 ( SLP-D1 ) with Canadian Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator, Dextre " was launched on STS-123.

STS-9 ( also known as STS-41A and Spacelab 1 ) was a NASA Space Shuttle mission which carried the first Spacelab laboratory module into orbit.

The mission was devoted entirely to Spacelab 1, a joint NASA / European Space Agency ( ESA ) program designed to demonstrate the ability to conduct advanced scientific research in space.

Funding for Spacelab 1 was provided by ESA.

The Spacelab 1 mission was highly successful, proving the feasibility of the concept of carrying out complex experiments in space using non-NASA persons trained as payload specialists in collaboration with a POCC.

The mission's main payload, Spacelab 1, is depicted in the payload bay of the Columbia.

She flew aboard STS-40 Spacelab Life Sciences ( SLS 1 ) in June 1991, the first Spacelab mission dedicated to biomedical studies.

The mission was also scheduled to carry out a series of tests with the TDRS-1 satellite which had been deployed by STS-6, to ensure the system was fully operational before it was used to support the Spacelab 1 program on the upcoming STS-9 flight.

It carried the Spacelab module for Spacelab Life Sciences 1 ( SLS-1 ), the fifth Spacelab mission and the first dedicated solely to biology.

This division, which grew to over 1, 000 people, provided payload integration for all Spacelab projects at the Marshall Space Flight Center and had a substantial role in the development of the U. S. laboratory for the International Space Station.

From 1978 to 1984 he was a researcher for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT )/ Canadian Vestibular experiments on Spacelab 1, Spacelab D-1, Spacelab SLS-1 and SLS-2, and a co-principal investigator for the Mental Workload and Performance experiment flown on IML-1 to assess human-computer workstation characteristics for the Space Station.

STS-58 ( Columbia ), Spacelab Life Sciences-2, flew October 18 to November 1, 1993.

In 1978, he was selected by the European Space Agency ( ESA ) as one of three European payload specialists to train for the Spacelab 1 mission.

He rejoined the Spacelab 1 crew for training as a back-up payload specialist to operate experiments aboard Spacelab 1.

Spacelab 1 was a joint NASA / ESA mission.

STS-51-F ( also known as Spacelab 2 ) was the nineteenth flight of NASA's Space Shuttle program, and the eighth flight of Space Shuttle Challenger.

A special part of the modular Spacelab system, the " igloo ", which was located at head of a three-pallet train, provided on-site support to instruments mounted on pallets.

The main mission objective was to verify performance of Spacelab systems, determine the interface capability of the orbiter, and measure the environment created by the spacecraft.

Despite mission replanning necessitated by Challenger < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s abort to orbit trajectory, the Spacelab mission was declared a success.

The Spacelab Infrared Telescope ( IRT ) was also flown on the mission.

At this point Columbia was joined by Challenger, which performed the next three shuttle missions, while Columbia underwent modifications for the first Spacelab mission.

In 1983, Columbia, under the command of John Young for his sixth spaceflight, undertook its second operational mission ( STS-9 ), in which the Spacelab science laboratory and a six-person crew was carried, including the first non-American astronaut on a space shuttle, Ulf Merbold.

Its ample size — much greater than that of the shuttle alone, or even the shuttle plus Spacelab — was enough, with some modifications, for up to seven astronauts of both sexes, and experiments needing a long duration in space ; even a movie projector for recreation was possible.

Another proposal was based on the Spacelab habitation modules, which provided 32 seats in the payload bay in addition to those in the cockpit area.

He was selected as one of four payload specialists for Spacelab 2 on August 9, 1978, and after seven years of training he flew on STS-51-F / Spacelab-2.

With a permanent space station as an objective, the Space Shuttle was developed as a reusable transportation vehicle, and with it came Spacelab and other experimental activities making use of the Shuttle ’ cargo bay.

MSFC was also responsible for Spacelab, the research facility carried in the Shuttle's cargo bay on certain flights.

Spacelab was a reusable laboratory used on certain spaceflights flown by the Space Shuttle.

Construction of Spacelab was started in 1974 by the ERNO ( daughter of VFW-Fokker GmbH, after merger with MBB named MBB / ERNO, and since 2003 part of EADS SPACE Transportation ).

A Spacelab Pallet was transferred to the Swiss Museum of Transport for permanent display on 5 March 2010.

On spaceflight where a habitable module was not flown, but pallets were flown, a pressurized cylinder known as the igloo carried the subsystems needed to operate the Spacelab equipment.

An igloo component was flown on Spacelab 2, Astro-1, ATLAS-1, ATLAS-2, ATLAS-3, and Astro-2.

Science work was to be moved to the International Space Station and Spacehab module, a pressurized carrier similar to the Spacelab Module.

A Spacelab Pallet was recommissioned in 2002 for flight on STS-99.

" Spacelab Pallet-Deployable 2 ( SLP-D2 )" was scheduled for STS-127.

In addition to the pallet experiments, many other experiments were flown and performed using Spacelab.

The Spacelab Module comprises a cylindrical main laboratory configurable as Short or Long Module flown in the rear of the Space Shuttle cargo bay, connected to the crew compartment by a tunnel.

This record duration 14-day mission was recognized by NASA management as the most successful and efficient Spacelab flight flown by NASA.

STS-78 was the fifth dedicated Life and Microgravity Spacelab mission for the Space Shuttle program, flown partly in preparation for the International Space Station project.

Dr. Seddon was the Payload Commander on this life science research mission which received NASA management recognition as the most successful and efficient Spacelab flown to date.

This record duration fourteen-day life science research mission has been recognized by NASA management as the most successful and efficient Spacelab flight that NASA has flown.

The Life Sciences and Microgravity Spacelab mission was flown aboard Space Shuttle Columbia.

After this selection he became a staff member at the European Space Research and Technology Centre ( ESTEC ) of ESA Space Science Department, Space Plasma Physics Division, working in the development, testing, and qualification of ES020-PICPAB, an experiment in Ionospheric Plasma Physics for the first Spacelab payload, flown in 1983, involving the use of accelerated charged particle beams ( cooperation involved French CNRS / CRPE, Norwegian NRDE and ESTEC ).

STS-90 was the last and most complex of the twenty-five Spacelab missions NASA has flown.