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STS-90 Day 15 HighlightsOn this fifteeth day of the STS-90 mission, the flight crew, Cmdr. Richard A. Searfoss, Pilot Scott D. Altman, and Mission Specialists Richard M. Linnehan, Dafydd Rhys Williams and Kathryn P. Hire, and Payload Specialists Jay C. Buckey and James A. Pawelczyk turns its attention to dexterity tests and dissections of rats neonates and the ball-catch experiment. Mission Specialists Rick Linnehan and Dave Williams and Payload Specialist Jim Pawelczyk will dissect the newborn rats. The dexterity test will test the response of young rats as they are tilted and turned while walking and climbing on a special apparatus with various surfaces. Later, all four payload crew members will repeat the ball-catch experiment. This experiment studies the ability of the central nervous system to accept and interpret new stimuli in space. The astronauts have performed this test at various points in the mission so scientists can compare their responses as their bodies adapt to weightlessness.
Document ID
19980218925
Acquisition Source
Johnson Space Center
Document Type
Video
Date Acquired
August 18, 2013
Publication Date
April 27, 1998
Subject Category
Space Transportation
Report/Patent Number
NONP-NASA-VT-1998348939
BRF-1414P
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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