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SpaceRef - Exploration and Missions - Human Missions - International Space Station - Utilization


  • KSC Payload Integration and Checkout Facility (PICF) - PICF is a subset of the total Space Station Processing Facility (SSPF). The PICF includes the following equipment and facility support that is dedicated to science payload processing.

  • KSC Utilization IPT Home Page - The NASA Kennedy Space Center Utilization Integrated Product Team (KSC UIPT) provides support necessary to assure the success of International Space Station (ISS) scientific payloads.

  • Microgravity Environment on the International Space Station - A description of the microgravity environment experimenters can expect to see on the International Space Station.

  • NASA MSFC Flight Projects Office - The mission of the Flight Projects Office at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center is to manage the Space Station payload utilization vehicle carrier integration, vehicle supporting development, node project engineering activities and Station Life Support Systems development and integration. To manage instrument development/acquisition, including associated science, technology, and applications activities.

  • NRC Task Group on Institutional Arrangements of Space Station Research (IASSR) - This National Research Council Space Studies Board task group is chartered to address general principles, major roles and functions, organizational character, and other relevant aspects of alternative institutional arrangements for facilitating the conduct of research on the International Space Station (ISS)

  • Science on the International Space Station - NASA's International Space Station implementation plan outlines research areas for which the ISS provides facilities and summarizes its unique research assets. Boeing Space Systems.

  • Space Station Utilization Office - This office at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center is responsible for design, development, manufacture, testing , verification, and delivery of Payload Support Equipment. Space Station Utilization also deliver and maintain analytical tools, methodologies, and ground facilities including hardware and software, to conduct ISS payload integration and operations.

  • The International Space Station- The NASA Research Plan, An Overview. - This ISS Research Plan describes how NASA will utilize the International Space Station (ISS). This document, when coupled with the technical version of the ISS Research Plan (to be published in 1998), will be a component of the NASA Strategic Management System and provide a basis for accountability in the ISS Program. [NASA Office of Life and Microgravity Sciences]

  • The Utilisation of the International Space Station - An overview of ESA's scientific and technical utilization of the research facilities aboard the ISS.


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