The challenge of the EuroMir 95 technology experiments.
Microbiological sampling techniques, earth-radiation-environment monitoring, gas-contaminant bio-filtering tools, multimedia communications technology, passive magnetic-levitation techniques for fluid-dynamics study, robotics-technology development, gas-sensor systems and analysis tools for human kinematics in microgravity--all were a part of the truly multidisciplinary Technology Experiments package flown aboard the record-breaking EuroMir 95 mission. Final processing and evaluation of the vast amount of data gathered from the experiments will not be completed until the end of the year--work is currently in progress at nine different centres throughout Europe--and this article therefore provides but a first glimpse of the mission's many findings and their implications for long-term manned spaceflight in the context of the International Space Station.
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Space Station Utilisation Division, ESA Directorate for Manned Spaceflight and Microgravity, ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands.
D004783:Environmental Microbiology; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D005060:Europe; D006801:Humans; D007390:International Agencies; D007391:International Cooperation; D008280:Magnetics; D011834:Radiation Monitoring / Q000295:instrumentation; D012106:Research; D012371:Robotics; D012426:Russia; D013026:Space Flight / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013672:Technology; D014893:Weightlessness