The ACCESS (Assembly Concept for Construction of Erectable Space Structure) experiment was launched on the Orbiter Atlantis on November 26, 1985. ACCESS was designed to study manual assembly of a 45-foot long truss structure by two astronauts working in space suits in the Orbiter cargo bay. This paper describes the experiment and hardware used, and compares on-orbit construction timelines to underwater neutral buoyancy data. In-flight photographs of assembly tasks and comments made by the crew at the postflight debriefing are also included. It was found that all tasks could be accomplished and that assembly times compared favorably with neutral buoyancy data.


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    Title :

    Results of the ACCESS space construction Shuttle flight experiment


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    Publication date :

    1986-01-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English