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ASSESS II: a simulated mission of Spacelab

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ASSESS II, a joint exercise of NASA and ESA, was set up to enable scientists to become accustomed to an atmosphere-free, gravity-free working environment. This simulation of Spacelabs conditions has provided new data and a valuable insight into the possibilities and limitations of such a mission.

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  1. DFVLR Institut für Flugmedizin, 53, Bonn, FRG

    H. M. Wegmann & R. Hermann

  2. NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, 94035

    C. M. Wingett

  3. Groupe Infrarouge Spatial, Observatoire de Meudon, France

    M. de Muizon, D. Rouan & P. Léna

  4. Department of Space Research, University of Groningen, the Netherlands

    J. Wijnbergen

  5. Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, Garching, FRG

    H. Olthof & K. W. Michel

  6. DFVLR Institut für Physik der Atmosphëre, 8031, Oberpfaffenhofen, FRG

    Ch. Werner

  7. Infrared Group IROE-CNR, 50145, Firenze, Italy

    F. Melchiorri, B. Melchiorri & V. Natale

  8. Capodimonate Astronomical Observatory, 80131, Naples, Italy

    R. Falciani & L. R. Smaldone

  9. Institute of Physics, University of Lecce, 73100, Lecce, Italy

    E. Bussoletti

  10. Department of Physics, University of Southampton, UK

    J. Crawford, P. Rothwell & M. Taylor

  11. ESA, ESTEC, Noordwijk, the Netherlands

    J. E. Beckman, D. Dale & J. Schmitt

  12. ESA-SPICE, Linder-Höhe, Porz-Wahn, FRG

    J. de Waard

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Wegmann, H., Hermann, R., Wingett, C. et al. ASSESS II: a simulated mission of Spacelab. Nature 275, 15–19 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1038/275015a0

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