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- Support a number of biological research science verification tests and payload verification tests for both STS and ISS missions.
- Create and maintain specific environmental conditions for testing of materials used to protect against corrosion.
- The implementation of a space act agreement to grow genetically-modified soybean plants and evaluate their growth and yield characteristics for use as part of the planned future bioregenerative life support systems on long duration space missions.
- Support of a long-standing research efforts studying spectral quality influences on biological systems. Much of the recent work has focused on the use of LEDs as an alternative lighting source for growing plants or for human habitat lighting applications.
- Initiate the development of a phase II SBIR with Physical Sciences, Inc. to install a solar light collector and deliver photosynthetically active radiation via fiber optic cables into a CEC.
- Provide unique low relative humidity environments for electrostatic testing of materials used for shuttle, ISS, and CEV applications.
- Support a CDDF-funded project requiring unique CO2 atmospheres (up to 10,000 ppm) to study the altered physiology and metabolite profile of crop plants used for bioregenerative life support.
Image right: Researchers performed charge decay testing of the Kapton Purge Barrier Curtain under ultra-low relative humidity conditions within one of the CECs.
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Editor: Josh Heise NASA Official: Scott Vangen Last Updated: April 16, 2008 |
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