Hardware for in-flight fixation of plants in microgravity.
NASA-approved hardware was designed for an experiment involving in-flight fixation of 4.8-day-old seedlings of Brassica perviridis. The hardware is inexpensive, reliable, and simple to construct. This hardware aboard flight 61-C of space shuttle Columbia functioned perfectly, and required less than 0.5 hr of crew time for training. Analyses of cellular ultrastructure indicated excellent ultrastructural preservation.
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Department of Biological Sciences, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio 45435.
D001937:Brassica / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D016253:Microscopy, Immunoelectron; D011309:Preservation, Biological / Q000379:methods*; D014893:Weightlessness