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Plant Signaling
The Plant Signaling Experiment will study the growth of plants in space. This European Space Agency study will be conducted on  board the ISS. The Plants are being photographed and samples will be taken to enable scientists on the ground to evaluate the experiment. Results of this experiment will be used in crop production improvements on earth. It will also provide knowledge that will be used to produce food during long duration space missions in the future.

Space Tissue Loss – The Effects of Microgravity on Stem Cell-Based Tissue Regeneration
This Department of Defense Payload will study stem tissue regeneration and wound healing in space using cell and tissue cultures. These experiments are used to improve treatments of injuries on earth.

Vascular Atrophy Commercial Biomedical Testing Module 3 – STS-135 Space Flight’s Affects on Vascular Atrophy in the Hind Limbs of Mice
This experiment will determine the impact of space flight on the skeletal bones of mice and measurements that might mitigate those effects. The particular focus of the study is to investigate if there is a correlation between space flight induced altered blood supply to the bones and/or surrounding tissues that causes a loss of bone mass.

 

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Ames Research Center - Spacelab Life Sciences-2 - STS-58

Payload on STS-58

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International Microgravity Laboratory (IML-2) Partners

Flown in STS-65
The International Microgravity Laboratory (IML-2) is the second in a series of Spacelab (SL) flights designed to conduct research in a microgravity environment. The IML concept enables a scientist to apply results from one mission to the next and to broaden the scope and variety of investigations between missions. Data from the IML missions contributes to the research base for the space station.[2]
As the name implies, IML-2 is an international mission. Scientists from the European Space Agency (ESA), Canada, France, Germany and Japan are all collaborating with NASA on the IML-2 mission to provide the worldwide science community with a variety of complementary facilities and experiments. These facilities and experiments are mounted in twenty 19" racks in the IML 2 Module.
Research on IML-2 is dedicated to microgravity and life sciences. Microgravity science covers a broad range of activities from understanding the fundamental physics involved in material behavior to using those effects to generate materials that cannot otherwise be made in the gravitational environment of the Earth. In life sciences research, a reduction of gravitation's effect allows certain characteristics of cells and organisms to be studied in isolation. These reduced gravitational effects also pose poorly understood occupational health problems for space crews ranging from space adaptation syndrome to long-term hormonal changes. On IML-2, the microgravity science and life sciences experiments are complementary in their use of SL resources. Microgravity science tends to draw heavily on spacecraft power while life sciences places the greatest demand on crew time.

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