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6/29/89: NASA SELECTS SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS FOR SPACE STATION FREEDOM

RELEASE: 89-104

     NASA's Office of Space Science and Applications today
announced the selection of 27 flight experiments, or concept
studies leading to experiments, that will fly aboard the Space
Station Freedom.

     The selections fall into two categories.  The flight
category is for attached scientific experiments that can be
mounted aboard elements of Freedom's structure during its
assembly and outfitting phase.  The 14 investigations selected in
this category will be the first performed aboard Freedom.  Flight
proposals were solicited that would be limited in weight and make
only modest demands on station resources, such as power, cooling
and crew availability, during the busy assembly phase.

     The concept study category is for studies that may lead to
flight experiments after the assembly phase.  These proposals
were solicited for more advanced ideas that could be implemented
after station assembly when additional resources, such as higher
power and data-handling capabilities, will be available.

     Some of the 14 flight experiments and 13 concept studies
call upon two facilities the Office of Space Science and
Applications has indicated would be built for Freedom.  These are
Astromag, a cryogenically-cooled superconducting electromagnet to
measure cosmic rays, and the Cosmic Dust Collection Facility,
which will capture and record the direction and velocity of
cosmic dust particles for further analysis.

     The 27 selections were made from responses to two NASA
announcements of opportunity issued in 1988.  The first, issued
in January, was for the Earth Observing System (EOS) and
solicited proposals for both the unmanned NASA Polar Orbiting
Platform and the permanently manned Space Station Freedom.  The
second was issued in July and was specifically for scientific and
technological payloads in other scientific disciplines to be
attached to Freedom.  Eight of the nine Earth science
investigations selected as attached payloads involve copies of
EOS Polar Platform instruments.

     The investigations include participants from about 50
organizations representing NASA and other government and private
research centers, U.S. universities and five foreign countries.
The selected experiments and concepts represent a wide range of
scientific disciplines including space physics, solar and
planetary physics, exobiology, astrophysics, Earth and
environmental science and communications technology.  They
involve nearly 130 scientists.

     Selection of the flight experiments was predicated on their
ability to meet a timetable for the design, development and
assembly of Freedom elements.  The earliest expected flight date
for any of the experiments is 1996.  The Freedom Station will
provide physical attachment points, power, cooling, data
communications and pointing for certain instruments.

     The Attached Payload Program is managed by the Office of
Space Science and Applications, Flight Systems Division.  Program
manager is Dr. Philip J. Cressy, and program scientist is Dr.
Stanley C. Freden, both at NASA Headquarters.

     The following individuals have been selected for funding for
experiments and concept studies in response to the January 1988
announcement:

Dr. Robert M. Walker, McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences,
Washington University, St. Louis, Cosmic Dust Experiment, flight
experiment.

Dr. Michael Fitzmaurice, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt,
Md., Laser Communications Transceiver, flight experiment.

Dr. Paul Gorenstein, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory,
Cambridge, Mass., Large Area Modular Array of Reflectors/High
Throughput X-Ray Astronomy Instrument, flight experiment.

Dr. Thomas A. Parnell, Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville,
Ala., Spectra, Composition and Interactions of Nuclei above 10
TeV, Astromag experiment, flight experiment.

Dr. Jonathan F. Ormes, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt,
Md., Large Isotope Spectrometer for Astromag, flight experiment.

Dr. Glenn C. Carle, Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
Exobiology Intact Capture Experiment, flight experiment.

Dr. Siegfried Auer, Applied Research Corporation, Landover, Md.,
Cosmic Dust Orbit and Capture Experiment, flight experiment.

Dr. Robert L. Golden, Particle Astrophysics Laboratory, New
Mexico State University, Las Cruces, Measurement of Cosmic Rays
including Anti-protons, Positrons, Anti-nuclei and a Search for
Primordial Antimatter, Astromag experiment, flight experiment.

Dr. Arthur B. Walker, Jr., Center for Space Science and
Astrophysics, Stanford University, Calif., Ultra-High Resolution
XUV Spectroheliograph, flight experiment.

Dr. W. T. Sanders, Space Science and Engineering Center,
University of Wisconsin at Madison, X-ray Background Survey
Spectrometer, flight experiment.

Dr. Peter B. Price, Space Science Laboratory, University of
California at Berkeley, Heavy Nucleus Collector, flight
experiment.

Dr. Peter M. Banks, STAR Laboratory, Department of Electrical
Engineering, Stanford University, Calif., Plasma Interactions
Experiment, concept study.

Dr. Michael Shao, Optical Sciences and Applications Section, Jet
Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., Orbiting Stellar
Interferometer, concept study.

Dr. Robert D. Reasenberg, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory,
Cambridge, Mass., Precision Optical Interferometry in Space
Study, concept study.

Dr. Jonathan E. Grindlay, Harvard College Observatory, Harvard-
Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Mass., Energetic
X-ray Observatory for Space Station, concept study.

Dr. Robert L. Brown, National Radio Astronomy Observatory,
Charlottesville, Va., High-Resolution Imaging Spectroscopy at
Tera Hertz Frequencies, concept study.

Dr. Hugh S. Hudson, Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences,
University of California, San Diego, Pinhole/Occulter Facility,
concept study.

Dr. Guy Fogleman, SETI Institute, Ames Research Center, Moffett
Field, Calif., Study to Develop an Active Collector of Cosmic
Dust, concept study.


The following investigators were selected from responses to the
July 1988 announcement:

Dr. M. Patrick McCormick, Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va.,
Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment III, flight experiment.

Dr. Hugh Christian, Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville,
Ala., Lightning Imaging Sensor, flight experiment.

Dr. Bruce Barkstrom, Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va.,
Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System, flight experiment.

Dr. William L. Barnes, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt,
Md., Tropical Region Imaging Spectrometer, concept study.

Dr. Michael H. Freilach, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena,
Calif., Advanced Scatterometer for Studies in Meteorology and
Oceanography, concept study.

Dr. Tiruvalam Krishnamurti, Florida State University,
Tallahassee, an experiment similar to the Laser Atmospheric Wind
Sounder, one of six facility instruments included in the Polar
Platform proposal, concept study.

Dr. William G. Melbourne, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena,
Calif., Global Positioning System Geoscience Instrument, concept
study.

Dr. Gerald R. North, Texas A&M University, College Station,
Tropical Rain Mapping Radar, concept study.

Dr. Roy Spencer, Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala.,
Tropical Geophysical Information Retrieval with a High Resolution
Microwave Spectrometer Sounder, concept study.


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A complete list of payload co-investigators follows:

                 FACT SHEET/FREEDOM EXPERIMENTS

                 SPACE STATION ATTACHED PAYLOAD
                 PRINCIPAL AND CO-INVESTIGATORS

Investigations selected for flight:

Principal Investigator (PI): Robert M. Walker, McDonnell Center
for the Space Sciences, Washington University, St. Louis, Mo.,
Cosmic Dust Experiment; Co-Investigators (Co-I): E. Zinner and C.
Simon, Washington University, St. Louis, Mo.; A. Tuzzolino and J.
Simpson, University of Chicago.

PI: Michael Fitzmaurice, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt,
Md., Laser Communications Transceiver.

PI: Paul Gorenstein, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory,
Cambridge, Mass., Large Area Modular Array of Reflectors (High
Throughput X-Ray Astronomy Instrument); Co-I: D. Fabricant,
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, Mass.; S. Kahn
and C. McKee, University of California, Berkeley; M. Wiesskopf,
Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala.; R. Rosner,
University of Chicago.

PI: Thomas A. Parnell, Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville,
Ala., Spectra, Composition, and Interactions of Nuclei above 10
TeV (Astromag experiment); Co-I: J. Wefel, Louisiana State
University, Baton Rouge; R. Wilkes, University of Washington,
Seattle; J. Gregory, University of Alabama, Huntsville; T. Ogata,
University of Tokyo, Japan.

PI: Jonathan F. Ormes, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt,
Md., Large Isotope Spectrometer for Astromag; Co-I: I. Rasmussen,
Danish Space Research Institute, Denmark; J. Klarmann, Washington
University, St. Louis, Mo.; M. Wiedenbeck, University of Chicago;
R. Mewaldt, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena; R.
Streitmatter, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.

PI: Glenn C. Carle, Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.,
Exobiology Intact Capture Experiment; Co-I: M. Fonda amd D.
Blake, SETI Institute, Mountain View, Calif.; T. Bunch, Ames
Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.; B. Clark, Martin Marietta
Astronautics Group, Denver, Colo.; P. Tsou, Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.; J. Cronin, Arizona State
University, Tempe; J. Hayes, Indiana University, Bloomington; J.
Kerridge, University of California, Los Angeles.

PI: Siegfried Auer, Applied Research Corporation, Landover, Md.,
Cosmic Dust Orbit and Capture Experiment; Co-I: O. Berg,
University of Maryland, College Park; D. Brownlee, University of
Washington, Seattle; G. Flynn, State University of New York,
Plattsburgh; E. Grun, Max Planck Institute fur Kernphysik, West
Germany; J. Iwanczyk, University of Southern California, Los
Angeles; F. von Bun, Applied Research Corporation, Landover, Md.;
H. Zook, Johnson Space Center, Houston.

PI: Robert L. Golden, Particle Astrophysics Laboratory, New
Mexico State University, Las Cruces, Measurement of Cosmic Rays
including Anti-protons, Positrons, Anti-nuclei and a Search for
Primordial Antimatter, Astromag experiment; Co-I: S. Ahlen,
Boston University; H. Crawford, University of California,
Berkeley; J. Ormes, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.;
C. Bower, Indiana State University, Terra Haute; T. Guzik,
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; S. Stephens, New Mexico
State University, Las Cruces; J. Adams, Naval Research
Laboratory, Washington, D.C.; M. Simon, University of Siegen,
West Germany; C. De Marzo, Italian Institutions (various).

PI: Arthur B. Walker Jr., Center for Space Science and
Astrophysics, Stanford University, Calif., Ultra-High Resolution
XUV Spectroheliograph; Co-I: R. Hoover, Marshall Space Flight
Center, Huntsville, Ala.; T. Barbee, Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory, Lawrence, Calif.; J. Timothy, Stanford University,
Calif.; S. Antiochos, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington,
D.C.; S. Wu, University of Alabama, Huntsville; D. Sime, High
Altitude Observatory, Boulder, Colo.

PI:  Dr. Wilton T. Sanders III, Space Science and Engineering
Center, University of Wisconsin at Madison, X-ray Background
Survey Spectrometer; Co-I: Dan McCammon, William L. Kraushaar and
Richard J. Edgar, University of Wisconsin at Madison.

PI:  Dr. P. Buford Price, Space Science Laboratory, University of
California, Berkeley, Heavy Nucleus Collector; Co-I: Gregory
Tarle, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Michael H. Salaman,
University of Utah, Salt Lake City; Dr. William H. Kinard,
Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va.

Investigations selected for concept study:

PI: Peter M. Banks, STAR Laboratory, Department of Electrical
Engineering, Stanford University, Calif., Plasma Interactions
Experiment; Co-I: P. Bernhardt, Naval Research Laboratory,
Washington, D.C.; D. Hardy, Air Force Geophysics Laboratory,
Bedford, Mass.; S. Mende, Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory,
Calif., W. Raitt, Utah State University; A. Drobot, Science
Applications International Corp., McLean, Va., D. Hastings,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; M. Kelley,
Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.; D. Reasoner, Marshall Space
Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala.; L.R.O. Storey, Stanford
University, Calif.

PI: Michael Shao, Optical Sciences and Applications Section, Jet
Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., Orbiting Stellar Inter-
ferometer; Co-I: Charles Beichman, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Pasadena, Calif.; B. Burke, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge; J. Hughes, Naval Observatory, Washington,
D.C.; S. Kulkarni, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena;
K. Johnston, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C.; E.
Kibblewhite, National Optical Astronomical Observatory, Arizona;
H. McAlister, Georgia State University, Atlanta; P. Nisenson,
Harvard/Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Mass.

PI: Robert D. Reasenberg, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory,
Cambridge, Mass., Precision Optical Interferometry in Space
Study; Co-I: R. Babcock, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory,
Cambridge, Mass.; J. Phillips, Smithsonian Astrophysical
Observatory, Cambridge, Mass.

PI: Jonathan E. Grindlay, Harvard College Observatory, Harvard-
Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Observations, Cambridge,
Mass., Energetic X-ray Observatory for Space Station; Co-Is: S.
Murray and F. Primini, Harvard Smithsonian Observatory,
Cambridge, Mass.; Prince, California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena; B. Ramsey and M. Weisskopf, Marshall Space Flight
Center, Huntsville, Ala.; G. Skinner, University of Birmingham,
England.

PI: Robert L. Brown, National Radio Astronomy Observatory,
Charlottesville, Va., High-Resolution Imaging Spectroscopy at
Tera Hertz Frequencies; Co-I: A. Kerr, National Radio Astronomy
Observatory, Charlottesville, Va.

PI: Hugh S. Hudson, Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences,
University of California, San Diego, Pinhole/Occulter Facility;
Co-I: C. Crannell and J. Davis, Marshall Space Flight Center,
Huntsville, Ala.; A. G. Emslie, University of Alabama,
Huntsville; J. Grindlay, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.; G.
Hurford, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena; J. Kohl,
Harvard/Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Mass.; R.
Lin, University of California, Berkeley; R. Munro, Ball Aerospace
Systems Division, Boulder, Colo.: G. Skinner, University of
Birmingham, England; K. Wood, Naval Research Laboratory,
Washington, D.C.

PI: Guy Fogleman, SETI Institute, Mountain View, Calif., Study to
Develop an Active Collector of Cosmic Dust; Co-I: G. Carle, Ames
Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.; Benton Clark and J.
Miller, Martin Marietta Astronautics Group, Denver; J.
Huntington, SETI Institute, Mountain View, Calif.; D. Perkins and
D. Thomas, KMS Fusion, Inc., Ann Arbor, Mich.


Earth science investigations selected for flight:

PI: M. Patrick McCormick, Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va.,
Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment III; Co-I: W. P. Chu,
Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va.; D. M. Cunnold, Georgia
Institute of Technology, Atlanta; Benjamin M. Herman, University
of Arizona, Tempe; Alvin J. Miller, NOAA National Meteorology
Center, Suitland, Md.; Joseph M. Zawodny, Langley Research
Center, Hampton, Va.; Philip B. Russell, Ames Research Center,
Moffet Field, Calif.; David Rind, Goddard Institute for Space
Studies, New York, N.Y.; Jacqueline Lenoble, Universite de
Sciences et Techniques de Lille, France.

PI: Hugh Christian, Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville,
Ala., Lightning Imaging Sensor; Co-I: Richard Blakeslee and
Steven J. Goodman, Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville,
Ala.; Douglas M. Mach, University of Alabama, Birmingham.

PI: Bruce Barkstrom, Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va.,
Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System; Co-I: Maurice L.
Blackmon, NOAA Environmental Research Laboratory, Princeton,
N.J.; Robert D. Cess, State University of New York, Stonybrook.


Earth science investigations selected for concept studies:

PI: William L. Barnes, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt,
Md., Tropical Region Imaging Spectrometer; Co-I: Wayne Esaias and
Joel Susskind, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.

PI: Michael H. Freilich, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena,
Calif., Advanced Scatterometer for Studies in Meteorology and
Oceanography; Co-I: Robert M. Atlas, Goddard Space Flight Center,
Greenbelt, Md.; Peter Cornillon, University of Rhode Island,
Kingston; Robert A. Brown, University of Washington, Seattle;
David Halpern and Fuk Li, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena,
Calif.; Ross N. Hoffman, Atmospheric and Environmental Research,
Inc., Cambridge, Mass.; David Legler, Florida State University,
Tallahassee; Richard K. Moore, University of Kansas, Lawrence;
James J. O'Brien, Florida State University, Tallahassee.

PI: Tiruvalam Krishnamurti, Florida State University,
Tallahassee, an experiment similar to the Laser Atmospheric Wind
Sounder, one of six facility instruments included in the Polar
Platform proposal; Co-I: Daniel Fitzjarrald, Marshall Space
Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala.

PI: William G. Melbourne, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena,
Calif., Global Positioning System Geoscience Instrument; Co-I:
Thomas P. Yunck, Gunnar F. Lindal and Lawrence E. Young, Jet
Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.; George H. Born,
University of Colorado, Boulder; Bradford H. Hager, California
Institute of Technology, Pasadena; Chao-Han Liu, University of
Illinois, Urbana.

PI: Gerald R. North, Texas A&M University, College Station,
Tropical Rain Mapping Radar; Co-I: Fuk Li, Jeff Dozier, R.
Eastwood Im, and W. Timoth Liu, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Pasadena, Calif.; David Atlas, consultant, Bethesda, Md.; Robert
Houze, University of Washington, Seattle; Tiruvalam Krishnamurti,
Florida State University, Tallahassee; William K. Lau, Robert
Meneghini, David Short, Joanne Simpson and Thomas Wilheit,
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.; Ken'ichi Okamoto,
Communications Research Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan; Jagadish
Shukla, University of Maryland, College Park; Juan Valdes, Texas
A&M University, College Station; Peter Webster, Pennsylvania
State University, University Park; James. A Weinman, Applied
Research Corporation, Landover, Md.

PI: Roy Spencer, Marshall Space Flight Center, Ala., Tropical
Geophysical Information Retrieval with a High Resolution
Microwave Spectrometer Sounder; Co-I: Frank J. Wentz, Remote
Sensing Systems; Paul Swanson, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Pasadena, Calif.


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June 29, 1989