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Description: | Hexagonal plywood box with 8 wooden mock-ups inside of layout of equipment for the first British University student experiment ever flown on the Space Shuttle. The flight was STS-41B in Challenger, launched on 3rd Feb 1984. The wooden mock-ups are labelled "Capacitance micrometer balance, stability of materials experiment; Rotational Brownian motion experiment, camera; Biological experiment; G.A.S. Controller and data loggeer; Flash gun; Electronics for flash; Batteries (6 cylinders in 2 groups)". The case has an aluminium lid with stickers "Utah State University Getaway Specal 2" (the prime US link) and "British Airways helicopters". The project was made possible for 3 Hons Physics students and 1 Hons Developmental Biology student in 1983 and co-ordinated by Dr Michael Gadsden. Two participants wre flown to the States to deliver the package in 1983 and 2 to retrieve it in 1984. The Aberdeen University Annual report (see ABDNP:201829c) contains an article with further details. | License: | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/Copyright_terms_conditions.shtml | Publisher: | ABDNP University of Aberdeen, Natural Philosophy Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments | Rights holder: | 47718 | Temporal: | 1983-1983 | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Creator: | Natural Philosophy Department | Identifier: | http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.e... | Go to resource |
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