The D1 Spacelab mission scientific space freight was dispatched from Bremen to the NASA Cape Canaveral launching site on a Boeing 747 freight and on a Lockheed C5A Galaxy. The Spacelab standard racks were integrated into the space laboratory (level 3 integration) and the payload elements to be exposed to space environment on the launcher structure. Simulations of the functions with the Columbia space shuttle were tested. Mission phases under flight conditions were tested in the integration hall at MBB-ERNO. Fluid shift under weightlessness was studied by measuring the eye's internal pressures with a tonometer.
Erste Deutsche Spacelab-Mission D1-Report (First German Spacelab Mission D1 Reports)
1985
7 pages
Report
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English