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Description: Documentation of the Risk Mitigation Experiment (RME) 1312, Intravehicular radiation environment measurement experiment Real-Time Radiation Monitoring Device (RRMD) in the Spacehab module. Includes views of Silkworm egg containers attached to equipment, RRMD switch panel, and spore sample container in Biorack incubator.
Subject Terms: STS-84, ATLANTIS (ORBITER), SPACEHAB, SPACEBORNE EXPERIMENTS, RADIATION MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
Date Taken: 6/19/1997
Original: Film
Preservation File Format: TIFF
STS-84
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rrmd
equipment
rrmd equipment
spacehab
mir space station
sts 84 atlantis
nasa
spaceborne experiments
high resolution
ultra high resolution
intravehicular radiation environment measurement experiment real time radiation
rme
rrmd switch panel
risk mitigation experiment
spacehab module
silkworm egg containers
spore sample container
radiation
tiff sts 84
biorack incubator
sts 84
space program
Date
1997
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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