Spacelab was a reusable laboratory developed by European Space Agency and used on certain spaceflights flown by the Space Shuttle.
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19 Facts About Spacelab
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Spacelab components flew on a total of about 32 Shuttle missions, depending on how such hardware and missions are tabulated.
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Spacelab allowed scientists to perform experiments in microgravity in geocentric orbit.
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Construction on the Spacelab modules began in 1974 by what was then the company ERNO-VFW-Fokker.
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Spacelab is important to all of us for at least four good reasons.
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Spacelab was produced by European Space Research Organisation, a consortium of ten European countries including:.
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Spacelab consisted of a variety of interchangeable components, with the major one being a crewed laboratory that could be flown in Space Shuttle orbiter's bay and returned to Earth.
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However, the habitable module did not have to be flown to conduct a Spacelab-type mission and there was a variety of pallets and other hardware supporting space research.
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Spacelab Pallet is a U-shaped platform for mounting instrumentation, large instruments, experiments requiring exposure to space, and instruments requiring a large field of view, such as telescopes.
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Spacelab Pallet used to transport both Canadarm2 and Dextre to the International Space Station is currently at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, on loan from NASA through the Canadian Space Agency .
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Spacelab Pallet was transferred to the Swiss Museum of Transport for permanent display on 5 March 2010.
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Spacelab Igloo is on display at the James S McDonnell Space Hangar at the Steven F Udvar-Hazy Center in the US.
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Spacelab components flew on 22 Space Shuttle missions from November 1983 to April 1998.
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The Spacelab components were decommissioned in 1998, except the Pallets.
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The Spacelab components were used on 41 Shuttle missions in total.
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Spacelab was an extremely large program, and this was enhanced by different experiments and multiple payloads and configurations over two decades.
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Spacelab missions conducted experiments in materials, life, solar, astrophysics, atmospheric, and Earth science.
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Spacelab represents a major investment on the order of one billion dollars from our European friends.
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