Mir space station

In the absence of gravity, the properties of a candle flame change dramatically [36,39,41]. Figure 8.1.3 shows a candle flame on the Mir space station, in which the melt layer was hemispherical and much thicker than that in normal gravity, and the flame was smaller, spherical, and less sooty, uncovering the blue flame zone. There was significant circulation in the liquid phase (as a result of surface-tension-driven flow caused... 

The 260 million Pathfinder and the Mars rovers are sending streams of data from the Martian surface back to Earth. Meanwhile, the International Space Station has been bedeviled by a seemingly endless stream of accidents. The Mir space station, brought back to Earth and crashed into the ocean after 15 years in 2001, had several incidents where lives were at great risk, including a fire and a collision with a docking ship. The greatest measurable achievements in space have been made by the unmanned robotic vehicles and instruments. 

World Spaceflight News. Russian -Soviet Spaceflight and the Mir Space Station CD Rom, Progressive Management, 2002. 

The He/ He ratio in the LIC has also been measured both by Ulysses (Gloeckler and Geiss 1998b) as well as in foils exposed on the MIR space station (Salerno et... 

Drinking water and humidity condensate samples collected from U.S. Space Shuttle and the Russian Mir Space Stations are analyzed routinely at the NASA-Johnson Space Center as a means of verifying water quality and monitoring the environment of the spacecraft. Anions and cations were determined by ion chromatography whereas carboxylates and amines were determined by CE (phthalate/TTAB for carboxylates and imidazole/HIBA for amines). Results showed that Shuttle water is of distilled quality whereas Mir-recovered water contains various levels of minerals. Organic ions were rarely detected in potable water samples but were present in humidity condensates. 

D. Horta, P.D. Mudgett, L. Ding, M. Drybread, J.R. Schultz and R.L. Sauer, Analysis of water from the Space Shuttle and Mir Space Station by ion chromatography and capillary electrophoresis, J. Chromatogr. A, 804, 295-304,1998. 

This has been a wonderful bit of musing thus far, but the history books of space exploration give reason for some more explanations. At 10.35 PM (Moscow time) on Febraaiy 23, 1997, there was a major fire aboard the Russian Mir space station. All of the six-membered American-German-Russian crew had to take part in fighting the fire, which took about 90 s—at least according to the official records. It took about a day to get rid of the last bits of smoke formed in this fire, the astronauts had to wear gas masks for hours. Is there a mistake somewhere in the previous line of thinking ... 

Mir The Soviet Union launches the Mir space station, the first permanent space station. 

This paper presents the analysis of the orbital experiment Gel-l , performed on the Mir space station. The use of optical methods enabled us to visualize the photoinitiated reaction of gelation. The examination of obtained specimens has shown that their optical and mechanical properties are more homogeneous than in specimens obtained in earth conditions. To elucidate the role of different gravitational sensitivity mechanisms the data from orbital experiments are compared with the results of laboratory. 

In 1992 the experiment, called Gel-l , was carried out on the Mir space station. The goal of the experiment was to study the evolution of frontal photopolymerization in conditions of real microgravity. GeH was a logical sequel to the orbital experimental studies jointly performed by V.Leont ev (the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Tashkent), A.Mashinsky (the Institute of Medical-Biological Problems, Moscow) and G.Nechitailo ( Energy Space Corporation, Moscow) in 1980-1988 (7- ) on board "Salyut" and Mir orbital stations. While pursuing here the objective other than a review of the literature we will only mention that experiments on polymer production have been undertaken also on other space vehicles and aircrafts (5-9). 

Bone markers, calcium metabolism, and calcium kinetics during extended-duration space flight on the Mir space station. J. Bone Miner. Res., 20, 208-218. 

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