The upcoming flight of the Pituitary Growth Hormone Cell Function (PHCF) experiment is a middeck class experiment examining the effects of microgravity on hormone activity in mammalian cells. PHCF was conceived by Principal Investigator Wesley Hymer of the Department of Biochemistry at The Pennsylvania State University. Experiment hardware was developed by the NASA Ames Research Center under the sponsorship of the NASA Life Sciences Division of the Office of Space Science and Applications.


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    Title :

    STS-46 OSSA Middeck Payload Experiment Prelaunch Mission Operation Report


    Publication date :

    1992


    Size :

    3 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English