Microgravity Simulation Support Facility
Microgravity Simulation Support Facility
The MSSF supports visiting scientists for short duration studies utilizing a variety of microgravity simulator devices (slow rotating 2-D clinostats, rotating wall vessel bioreactors, 3-D clinostats and random positioning machines).
Capabilities
- Nikon confocal microscope
- Nikon stereoscop
- Percival plant growth chambers
- Thermo CO2 incubators
- Biological safety cabinets
- Airbus microgravity simulators
- Gravite microgravity simulators
- Panasonic -1500C freezer
- Nanodrop 2000 Spectrometer
- CFX96 Realtime PCR
- Synthecon rotary cell culture system
- MetaSystems fluorescence microscope & imaging system
- Easycyte 8 flowcytometer
- Thermo Scientific -800C ultralow freezer
Fifteen Microgravity Simulation Research Grants Awarded
Review References on Microgravity Simulation
Scientist at NASA Kennedy Space Center
Dr. Ye Zhang, project scientist for the ISS Research Office
Anna Maria Ruby, project scientist for the ISS Research Office
Jeffrey Richards, project science coordinator and research scientist