Italian Space Agency (ASI) biological experiments operational development - Mission STS-120/10A
Bellomo, Alessandro ; Piermaria, Mauro ; Pignataro, Salvatore ; ...Mascetti, Gabriele ; et al.
Jan - 2008
ISBN : 9781615671601

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Abstract
The STS-120 Mission main objective was to perform the Node 2 assembly to the ISS. The Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli has been part of this Mission with the role of Mission Specialist and, in this context, ASI had the intention to exploit this significant event by performing some experiments in orbit. In particular, the experiments were: Fischer Rat Thyroid Low Serum 5\%, SPORE, Hand Posture Analyzer and, at some extent, COLOR. A Project Team, managed by ALTEC S.p.A., acting as Prime Contractor and composed by MARS Center, KAYSER Italia and Italian Universities (Principal Investigators) and Schools, supported ASI during the whole experiments life-cycle starting from the initial negotiation with NASA aimed to manifest the payloads on STS-120 until the post-landing activities addressed to the payloads safe return to the Laboratories in Italy for scientific assessment. The peculiarity of mission STS-120 imposed to ASI and to the project team to implement, at the maximum extend, collaboration engineering approaches among the involved industries and the scientific community and to optimize, at the highest level, the convergence process. In the following, the evolution of the program from the experiments conception, to the execution and post-mission analyses through its development timeframe is reported.

keywords : 9781615671601,Biological experiments - Collaboration engineeri