STS-93, Microgravity Experiments, 1999


MIssion specialist Catherine Coleman studying a small plant shoot on Shuttle Mission STS-93, (july 23rd - 27th, 1999). This experiment was part of the Plant Growth Investigations in Microgravity, (PGIM), project. The main purpose of this mission was to deploy the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, a powerful X-Ray telescope.


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