Biolab
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Biolab is a single-rack multi-user science payload designed for use in the Columbus laboratory of the International Space Station. Biolab will support biological research on small plants, small invertebrates, microorganisms, animal cells, and tissue cultures. It will include an incubator equipped with centrifuges in which the preceding experimental subjects can be subjected to controlled levels of accelerations.[1]
These experiments will help identify "the role that microgravity plays at all levels of an organism, from the effects on a single cell up to a complex organism including humans."[2]
[edit] Launch
Biolab is scheduled for launch during October of 2007, pre-installed inside the Columbus laboratory. This will be Space Shuttle mission STS-122, which will use the Discovery orbiter for ISS Assembly Flight 1E.
[edit] References
- ^ http://stationpayloads.jsc.nasa.gov/F-facilities/f2.html#biolab
- ^ http://www.esa.int/esaHS/ESA8EG0VMOC_iss_0.html
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