Launch from Cape Canaveral (
KSC); landing on Cape
Canaveral (
KSC).
Mission "United States Microlaboratory" (
USML-2).
Various experiments in the areas of fluidphysics, materials science,
biotechnology and the researchers found new insights into the theoretical
models of the role of gravity in combustion and flame spreading.
USML-2
Experiments included: the Surface Tension Driven Convection Experiment (STDCE),
the Drop Physics Module, the Drop Dynamics Experiment; the Science and
Technology of Surface-Controlled Phenomena experiment; the Geophysical Fluid
Flow Cell Experiment; the Crystal Growth Furnace, the Orbital Processing of
High Quality Cadmium Zinc Telluride Compound Semiconductors experiment; the
Study of Dopant Segregation Behavior During the Crystal Growth of Gallium
Arsenide (GaAs) in Microgravity experiment; the Crystal Growth of Selected
II-VI Semiconducting Alloys by Directional Solidification experiment; the Vapor
Transport Crystal Growth of Mercury Cadmium Tellurida in Microgravity
experiment; the Zeolite Crystal Growth Furnace (ZCG), the Interface
Configuration Experiment (ICE), the Oscillatory Thermocapillary Flow
Experiment; the Fiber Supported Droplet Combustion Experiment; the Particle
Dispersion Experiment; the Single-Locker Protein Crystal Growth experiment;
(including the Protein Crystallization Apparatus for Microgravity (PCAM) and
the Diffusion-controlled Crystallization Apparatus for Microgravity (DCAM));
the Crystal Growth by Liquid-Liquid Diffusion, the Commercial Protein Crystal
Growth experiment; the Advanced Protein Crystallization Facility,
Crystallization of Apocrystacyanin C experiment; Crystal Structure Analysis of
the Bacteriophage Lamda Lysozyme, Crystallization of RNA Molecules Under
Microgravity Conditions experiment; Crystallization of the Protein Grb2 and
Triclinic Lysozyme experiment; Microgravity Crystallization of Thermophilic
Aspartyl-tRNA Synthetase and Thaumatin experiment; Crystallization in a
Microgravity Environment of CcdB experiment; A Multivariate Analysis of X-ray
Diffraction Data Obtained from Glutathione S Transferase experiment; Protein
Crystal Growth: Light-driven Charge Translocation Through Bacteriorhodopsin
experiment; Crystallization of Ribosome experiment; Crystallization of
Sulfolobus Solfataricus Alcohol Dehydrogenase experiment; Crystallization of
Turnip Yellow Mosaic Virus, Tomato Aspermy Virus, Satellite Panicum Mosaic
Virus, Canavalin, Beef Liver Catalase, Concanavalin B experiment;
Crystallization of the Epidermal Growth Factor (EGF); Structure of the
Membrane-Embedded Protein Complex Photosystem I; Crystallization of Visual
Pigment Rhodopsin; Commercial Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus; Astroculture
Facility and Experiment. Spacelab Glovebox Facility experiments included the
Zeolite Crystal Growth Glovebox, Protein Crystal Growth Glovebox and the
Colloidal Disorder-Order Transitions.
Other payloads on board included
the Orbital Acceleration Research Experiment (OARE), Space Acceleration
Measurement System (SAMS), Three Dimensional Microgravity Accelerometer (3DMA),
Suppression of Transient Accelerations By Levitation Evaluation (STABLE) and
the High-Packed Digital Television Technical Demonstration system.
