Current Shuttle Experiment Offers Insight into The Mechanics of Granular Materials - UPDATE
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Current Shuttle Experiment Offers Insight Into The Mechanics
of Granular Materials (MGM)
September 18 UPDATE: The first portion
of the MGM experiment was performed from 1:00 a.m. Wednesday, September
18, to about 4:30 a.m. Dr. Nicholas Costes, the MGM Project Scientist at
the Marshall Space Flight Center reports that this portion of the test went
well. A second test will start at 11:30 p.m., Thursday, September 19, 1996
and will be concluded at 4:00 a.m. on Friday, September 20. The third and
final portion of the experiment Test will start at 12:30 a.m. on Satuday,
September 20, 1996 and will be concluded at about 4:30 a.m. of the same
day.
After Atlantis arrives back on Earth, the experment's granular material
specimens will be transported either from the orbiter's landing site to
the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama for laser measurements
and the introduction of an epoxy filler so that thin sections can be obtained
from the specimens to study their internal composition and structure.
BACKGROUND ARTICLE ORIGINALLY POSTED AUGUST 12.
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NASA Official: John M. Horack