
092 - STS-51L - Part 1
The Space Above Us
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Space Explosions - What's Next?
Spartan haley would be able to observe haley's comet as it came screaming out from behind the sun. Using avar ety of specialized censors, it was able to study what materials were flowing off the comet and how they were interacting with the solar environment. One experiment attempted to use semi permeable membranes to direct how crystals grow. Another experiment heated and cooled a titanium loy to study how cooling and microgravity affected the material. Learning more about how chicken embryos develop in weightlessness could give valuable insight into how human embryos form down on earth.
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