{"id":117,"date":"2003-01-13T23:40:04","date_gmt":"2003-01-14T04:40:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-01-13T23:40:04","modified_gmt":"2003-01-14T04:40:04","slug":"astronaut-manages-research-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=117","title":{"rendered":"ASTRONAUT MANAGES RESEARCH IN SPACE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>     NASA astronaut and Payload Commander <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsc.nasa.gov\/Bios\/htmlbios\/anderson.html\"   target=\"_blank\"  >Michael Anderson <\/a> will manage more than 80 experiments during a 16-day science mission on the Space Shuttle Columbia. <\/p>\n<p>Anderson, along with Columbia Commander Rick Husband, Pilot Willie McCool, Mission Specialists Dave Brown, Kalpana Chawla, Laurel Clark, and Payload Specialist Ilan Ramon will work around-the-clock in shifts to conduct biology, physics, chemistry and Earth science experiments. They will work inside the Shuttle&#8217;s middeck and in a new Spacehab Research Double Module during the mission dedicated to scientific research. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nThe research, developed by NASA, the European Space Agency, commercial enterprises, and students could lead to a cleaner environment, better construction materials and the development of drug therapies that may assist with the prevention of breast, lung, colon and brain cancer.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to managing the research, Anderson, a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force and former instructor pilot, will perform experiments exploring heart and lung functions; fire suppression and soot processing; bone and muscle atrophy; kidney stone and viral infection prevention. <\/p>\n<p>Selected by NASA in December 1994, Anderson flew on Space Transportation System (STS)-89 in 1998, the eighth Shuttle-Mir docking mission. He has logged more than 211 hours in space. Anderson attended Creighton University where he earned a Master of Science degree in physics.  <\/p>\n<p>The Shuttle Columbia (STS-107) is scheduled to launch Thursday, between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. EST, from the Kennedy Space Center, Fla. The precise launch time will be announced approximately 24 hours prior to liftoff.<\/p>\n<p>\nAdditional information about the STS-107 mission is <br \/>\navailable on the Internet at: <br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceflight.nasa.gov\/shuttle\/\"   target=\"_blank\"  > http:\/\/www.spaceflight.nasa.gov\/shuttle\/  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>A biography and photo of Anderson is available at:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsc.nasa.gov\/Bios\/htmlbios\/anderson.html\"   target=\"_blank\"  > http:\/\/www.jsc.nasa.gov\/Bios\/htmlbios\/anderson.html  <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA astronaut and Payload Commander Michael Anderson will manage more than 80 experiments during a 16-day science mission on the Space Shuttle Columbia. Anderson, along with Columbia Commander Rick Husband,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":612598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-NASA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/612598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}