Technical Paper
Plant Growth, Invertebrate and Cells Hardware Developed for the First International Microgravity Laboratory (IML-1)
1993-07-01
932265
The Space Life Sciences Projects Office at NASA Ames Research Center (ARC), is responsible for developing and integrating nonhuman experiments flown aboard the Spacelab. Recent projects included hardware for experiments flown on the First International Microgravity Laboratory (IML-1) January 22-30, 1992. Two hardware projects are described. The Gravitational Plant Physiology Facility (GPPF) is a double rack piece of Life Sciences Laboratory Equipment (LSLE) designed to support plant growth studies under controlled conditions of g acceleration in the microgravity of space, with emphasis on gravitropic, phototropic, and circumnutational studies. The GPPF was designed by Principal Investigators at the University Science Center, and University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, and flown by ARC, Moffett Field, California.
