Spacelab layout showing tunnel, pressurized Module and Pallet

Shuttle Columbia during STS-9 with Spacelab Module LM1 and tunnel in its cargo bay.

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

The Spacelab Module and an exterior experiment support structure contained in Columbia ’ s payload bay comprised the Spacelab D-2 payload.

** MSL-1 Spacelab Module:

MSL was a collection of microgravity experiments housed inside a European Spacelab Long Module ( LM ).

** MSL-1 Spacelab Module:

MSL was a collection of microgravity experiments housed inside a European Spacelab Long Module ( LM ).

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.

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

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.

The Center also received responsibility for Spacelab, a versatile laboratory that would be carried on some flights within the Shuttle's cargo bay.

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

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.

Most of these experiments were conducted within the pressurized Spacelab laboratory module situated in the orbiter ’ s payload bay.

Spacelab orbital laboratory module.

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.

A veteran of two Spacelab missions, Parker was a mission specialist on STS-9 / Spacelab-1 ( 28 November-8 December 1983 ) and on STS-35 ( 2 – 10 December 1990 ); which featured the ASTRO-1 ultraviolet astronomy laboratory.

During the eight-day flight, the crew focused on life science and materials processing experiments in over forty investigations in the Spacelab laboratory, as well as scientific and engineering tests performed aboard the Orbiter Endeavour.

This Spacelab mission featured the ASTRO-1 ultraviolet astronomy laboratory, a project on which Dr. Hoffman had worked since 1982.

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

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

* Spacelab 1 was flown on STS-9, launched November 28, 1983.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Space Shuttle Challenger is depicted ascending toward the heavens in search of new knowledge in the field of solar and stellar astronomy, with its Spacelab 2 payload.

Challengers many spaceflight accomplishments included the first American woman, African-American, and Canadian in space ; three Spacelab missions ; and the first night launch and night landing of a Space Shuttle.

After Skylab's demise, the focus shifted to the reusable Spacelab module, an orbital workshop that could be deployed from the Space Shuttle and returned to Earth.

** STS 40: Space Shuttle Columbia carries the Spacelab into orbit.

The US Space Shuttle flew 135 times from 1981 to 2011, supporting Spacelab, Mir, and ISS.

Other American manned spacecraft include the Gemini Spacecraft, Apollo Spacecraft, the Skylab space station, and the Space Shuttle with undetached European Spacelab and private US Spacehab space stations-modules.

The European Space Agency ( ESA ) in June 1974 named a consortium headed by ERNO-VFW-Fokker GmbH to build pressurized modules for Spacelab.

Bondar flew on the NASA Space Shuttle Discovery during Mission STS-42, January 22 – 30, 1992, during which she performed experiments in the Spacelab.

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.

Under a program managed by MSFC, ten Europeans nations jointly designed, built, and financed the first Spacelab through the European Space Research Organisation ( ESRO.

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.

Astronauts and payload specialists worked in the Spacelab module and coordinated their efforts with scientists at the Marshall Payload Operations Control Center ( POCC ) then located at the Johnson Space Center.

In 1978, the European Space Agency ( ESA ) selected him, along with Wubbo Ockels and Claude Nicollier, to train as payload specialists on the first flight of the Spacelab module.

It again carried the DFI package, as well as the OSTA-l payload – named for the NASA Office of Space and Terrestrial Applications – which consisted of a number of remote-sensing instruments mounted on a Spacelab pallet in the payload bay.

In addition, in its payload bay, Columbia again carried the DFI package, and OSS-l ( named for the NASA Office of Space Science and Applications ) which consisted of a number of instruments mounted on a Spacelab pallet, intended to obtain data on the near-Earth environment and the extent of contamination caused by the orbiter itself.

In 1993, he flew on board the Space Shuttle Columbia on mission STS-55 ( Spacelab D-2 ) as a Payload Specialist.

The European Space Agency ESA in June 1974 named a consortium headed by ERNO-VFW Fokker ( Zentralgesellschaft VFW-Fokker GmbH ) to build pressurized modules for Spacelab.

The European Space Agency ESA in June 1974 named a consortium headed by ERNO-VFW Fokker ( Zentralgesellschaft VFW-Fokker GmbH ) to build pressurized modules for Spacelab.