SpaceLab EU said with its Open Calls, the company aims to spice students' enthusiasm about space-related topics and European space presence, and strengthen the connections to the aerospace community.
NOVEMBER 1983: First flight of
Spacelab, a reusable laboratory for microgravity research developed by the European Space Agency.
The
Spacelab project, a collaboration between the US and Europe, seemed a perfect example of technology transfer from the former to the latter, but Johnson (space studies, U.
Fettman, is the former NASA astronaut (
Spacelab Life Sciences-2 in 1992 and STS-58 in 1993) who earned his DVM degree in the College of Veterinary Medicine here.
Earlier this year, Verio acquired Long Island-based LI Net and New York City-based
SpaceLab. Founded in 1992, new-york.net provides primarily dedicated access, from 56K to T3 service, to more than 200 customers in New York and New Jersey, which include the National Football League, the American National Standards Institute and Sumitomo Bank Capital Markets.
The company paid about $2,000 to develop a digital gateway to the Internet utilizing the services of Nynex, New York's local telephone and telecommunications giant, and
SpaceLab Net, a local Internet service provider.
NASA has long had a keen interest in telemedicine because of its responsibility to monitor and, when necessary, render diagnosis and treatment to its personnel in distant places (the moon, the
Spacelab, the Space Shuttle), and leaders of NASA are making certain that they "privatize" technologies their organization develops with civilian organizations, such as Inova Health System.
The centrifuge facility provides the major elements of a life science research facility for
Spacelab and Space Station Freedom.
Beggs cleared the decks for this megabucks project by halting work on a relatively inexpensive effort to modify one shuttle so it could stay in space a month with the existing
Spacelab mini-station in its payload bay.
Bhaskaran started his career at Lockheed Martin in 1989 as a payload systems engineer, where he performed
spacelab payload structural analysis for three integrated racks that flew and operated on shuttle missions SLS-1 and SLS-2.
Messerschmid, one of the early astronauts of
Spacelab, is affiliated with the Institute of Space Systems at the University of Stuttgart.
As well as enduring 722 hours in space, she also assisted in the preparation of cardiovascular experiments which flew aboard Space Shuttle Columbia on the Neurolab
Spacelab flight in April 1998.