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  Volume 6, Number 1     January/February 1998

Commercial Development Mission Update
Date* Flight Payload Sponsor/Coordinator
5/98 STS-91
Shuttle/Mir-09
Commercial Protein Crystal Growth-11
(secondary payload; "sortie" mode)
Center for Macromolecular Crystallography
8/98 STS-93
AXAF
AEROGEL
Commerical Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus-04**
Marshall Space Flight Center
BioServe Space Technologies
10/98 STS-95

BioTechHab
(SPACEHAB
short module)

Includes eight commercial development payloads:

Advanced Organic Separation Unit (ADSEP)
AEROGEL
ASTROCULTURE™
BioDyn-A
Commercial Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus
Commmercial ITA Biomedical Experiments
Commercial Protein Crystal Growth-15
Microencapsulation Electrostatic Processing System

Commercial Space Centers and NASA Centers

Consortium for Materials Development in Space
Marshall Space Flight Center
Wisconsin Center for Space Automation & Robotics
Consortium for Materials Development in Space BioServe Space Technologies
Instrumentation Technology Associates, Inc. Center for Macromolecular Crystallography
Johnson Space Center/MSFC

Key STS—Space Transportation System
ITA—Instrumentation Technology Associates, Inc.
*As of 30 March 1998
**Being considered for manifesting

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