Microgravity Science Laboratory-1: The Science Team

MSL-1 Mission Scientist Mike Robinson , with his arms up,
celebrates a successful moment on a previous shuttle mission.

Here you can cyber-meet members of the Microgravity Science Laboratory-1 team. These are the scientists who remain on the ground commanding the scientific instruments and directing the crew for science operations during the flight.

They come from all over - some work for NASA and many work for other organizations, such as a university or a research center. They share a love of scientific research - so much so that many of them have spent years studying, designing, and flying these instruments on board MSL-1. However, their real work begins after the shuttle lands. It's the data recorded during the mission that is important to the research scientist - data that is used to refine ongoing research, develop new understanding of basic physical and chemical processes, and develop new materials and techniques for use on the ground. Here you can read about MSL-1 scientists and their primary responsibilities for the mission.

Some of them will also tell you why the science of MSL-1 is important.

FACILITY	EXPERIMENT	PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR	PROJECT SCIENTIST
EXPRESS Rack	Astro/Plant Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus	Louis Stodieck University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado	Paul Todd BioServe Space Technologies Boulder, Colorado
CM-1 (Combustion Module-1)	Laminar Soot Processes (LSP)	Gerard Faeth University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan	David Urban NASA Lewis Research Center Cleveland, Ohio
CM-1 (Combustion Module-1)	Structure of Flame Balls at Low Lewis-Number (SOFBALL)	Paul Ronney (click on picture for bio) University of Southern California Los Angeles, California	Karen Weiland NASA Lewis Research Center Cleveland, Ohio
Spacelab - MGBX	Coarsening in Solid-Liquid Mixtures - CSLM	Peter Voorhees Northwestern University Evanston, Illinois	Thomas Glasgow NASA Lewis Research Center Cleveland, Ohio
Spacelab	Droplet Combustion Experiment - DCE	Forman Williams University of California, San Diego La Jolla, California	Vedha Nayagam Analex/Lewis Research Center Cleveland, Ohio
Spacelab - LIF (Large Isothermal Furnace)	Diffusion of Liquid Metals and Alloys	Toshio Itami Hokkaido University Sapporo, Japan	Shinichi Yoda NASDA Tsukuba, Japan
Spacelab - LIF (Large Isothermal Furnace)	Diffusion in Liquid Lead-Tin-Telluride	Misako Uchida IHI Tokyo, Japan	Shinichi Yoda
Spacelab - LIF (Large Isothermal Furnace)	Impurity Diffusion in Ionic Melts	Tsutomu Yamamura Tohoku University Sendai, Japan	Shinichi Yoda
Spacelab - LIF (Large Isothermal Furnace)	Measurement of Diffusion Coefficient by Shear Cell Method	Shinichi Yoda NASDA Tsukuba, Japan	Shinichi Yoda
Spacelab - LIF (Large Isothermal Furnace)	Liquid Phase Sintering II (LPS-2)	Randall German Pennsylvania State University University Park, Pennsylvania	Thomas Glasgow NASA Lewis Research Center Cleveland, Ohio
Spacelab - LIF (Large Isothermal Furnace)	Diffusion Processes in Molten Semiconductors (DPIMS)	David Matthiesen Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, Ohio	Alfonso Velosa NYMA/Lewis Research Center Cleveland, Ohio
Spacelab - PCG (Protein Crystal Growth)	Protein Crystal Growth Using the Protein Crystallization Apparatus for Microgravity (PCAM)	Dan Carter New Century Pharmaceuticals Huntsville, Alabama	Marcus Vlasse NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, Alabama
Spacelab - PCG (Protein Crystal Growth)	Protein Crystal Growth Using the Hand-Held Diffusion Test Cell (HHDTC)	Alex McPherson University of California, Riverside Riverside, California Dr. McPherson's Faculty Listing with selected publications	Bill Witherow NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, Alabama
Spacelab - PCG (Protein Crystal Growth)	Protein Crystal Growth Using the Second Generation Vapor Diffusion Apparatus (VDA-2)	Larry DeLucas University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham, Alabama	Laurel Karr NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, Alabama

 

FACILITY	EXPERIMENT	PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR	PROJECT SCIENTIST
EXPRESS Rack	Physics of Hard Spheres Experiment - PHaSE	Paul Chaikin Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey	Jerri Ling NASA Lewis Research Center Cleveland, Ohio
Spacelab - TEMPUS (Electromagnetic Containerless Processing Facility)	Thermophysical Properties of Undercooled Metallic Melts	Ivan Egry DLR Cologne, Germany	Ivan Egry DLR Cologne, Germany
Spacelab - TEMPUS (Electromagnetic Containerless Processing Facility)	Thermophysical Properties of Advanced Materials in the Undercooled Liquid State	Hans Fecht Techniches Universität Berlin Berlin, Germany	Ivan Egry
Spacelab - TEMPUS (Electromagnetic Containerless Processing Facility)	Measurements of the Surface Tension of Liquid and Undercooled Metallic Melts by Oscillating Drop Technique	Martin Frohberg Techniches Universität Berlin Berlin, Gemany	Ivan Egry
Spacelab - TEMPUS (Electromagnetic Containerless Processing Facility)	(a) Study of the Morphological Stability of Growing Dendrites by Comparative Dendrite Velocity Measurements of Pure Ni and a Dilute Ni-C Alloy in the Earth and Space Laboratory (b) Undercooled Melts of Alloys with Polytetrahedral Short-Range Order	Dieter Herlach DLR Cologne, Germany	Ivan Egry
Spacelab - TEMPUS (Electromagnetic Containerless Processing Facility)	Thermal Expansion of Glass Forming Metallic Alloys in the Undercooled State	Konrad Samwer University of Augsburg Augsburg, Germany	Ivan Egry
Spacelab - TEMPUS (Electromagnetic Containerless Processing Facility)	Experiment on Nucleation in Different Flow Regimes	Robert Bayuzick Vanderbilt University Nashville, Tennessee	Jan Rogers (click on picture for bio) NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, Alabama.
Spacelab - TEMPUS (Electromagnetic Containerless Processing Facility)	Alloy Undercooling Experiments	Merton Flemings Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts	Jan Rogers
Spacelab - TEMPUS (Electromagnetic Containerless Processing Facility)	Measurement of Surface Tension Viscosity of Undercooled Liquid Metals	Merton Flemings , Gerardo Trapaga Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts	Jan Rogers
Spacelab - TEMPUS (Electromagnetic Containerless Processing Facility)	AC Calorimetry and Thermophysical Properties of Bulk Glass-Forming Metallic Liquids	William Johnson California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California	Jan Rogers
Spacelab - MGBX (Middeck Glovebox)	A Study of the Fundamental Operation of a Capillary-driven Heat Transfer Device in Microgravity (CHT)	Kevin Hallinan (GI) University of Dayton, Ohio	Don Reiss NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, Alabama
Spacelab - MGBX (Middeck Glovebox)	Bubble and Drop Nonlinear Dynamics (BDND)	Gary Leal (GI) University of California, Santa Barbara	Don Reiss
Spacelab - MGBX (Middeck Glovebox)	Internal Flows in a Free Drop (IFFD)	Satwindar Sadhal (GI) University of Southern California	Don Reiss
Spacelab - MGBX (Middeck Glovebox)	Fiber Supported Droplet Combustion-2 (FSDC-2)	Forman Williams (GI) University of California, San Diego	Don Reiss

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