usmp-2

STS-62 was a Space Shuttle program mission flown aboard Space Shuttle Columbia. The primary payloads were the USMP-02 microgravity experiments package and the OAST-2 engineering and technology payload, both in the orbiter's cargo bay. The two-week mission also featured a number of biomedical experiments focusing on the effects of long duration spaceflight. The landing was chronicled by the 1994 Discovery Channel special about the Space Shuttle Program and serves as the show's opening. A C.F. Martin backpacker guitar was on the shuttle during the mission.

USMP-2, part of STS-62

Experimental Investigation of Spacecraft Glow (EISG)/ Spacecraft Kinetic Infrared Test (SKIRT) consists of two
complementary experiment assemblies. Both are designed to measure spacecraft glow, which occurs when the rapidly
moving orbiter rams into atoms of oxygen and molecules of nitrogen in low Earth orbit, causing them to give off light. When
the orbiter passes in and out of darkness and light as ft circles the Earth, its surface temperature changes, thus affecting the
illumination range of the atomic particles. The EISG and SKIRT sensors will measure spacecraft glow as a function of
temperature.