Asri-unix.1062
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Fri Mar 19 14:13:15 1982
Space Shuttle experiment slots open
Through NASA's Get Away Special program a group of JPL employees,
Occidental College students, and other interested persons are developing a
materials processing payload to be flown in late '82 or early '83.
This payload will contain 18 furnaces able to heat small (2 cc) samples to
1000 degrees Centigrade in 60 minutes. Its purpose is to investigate materials
behavior in near-zero gravity. Each furnace will support an individual
experiment.
Six of the furnaces are still unallocated. Since we would like to put this
payload to good use we would like to hear from people with good experiments in
mind who are willing to do the ground-based preliminary and follow-up work
involved. You supply the sample and temperature profile. We will, at no cost, fly
and return your sample along with in-flight temperature and acceleration data .
You write a report on the results, which will be published as part of the overall
project report.
If you are interested please get back to me. (If you just want to barbecue
some chicken, I suggest your own back yard).
Tony
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