Liquid bridge breakages aboard spacelab-d1

The spacelab experience: a synopsis.

The Spacelab 1 mission, a joint venture of the European Space Agency and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration took place during the period 28 November through 8 December 1983. An overview of the first flight of the orbiting laboratory is presented here. The payload crew members' view of Spacelab operations and results of the scientific investigations carried out on this mission are...

All Aboard

Animal Studies on Spacelab - 3

The flight of two squirrel monkeys and 24 rats on Spacelab-3 wall the first mission to provide "hands-on" maintenance of animals in a laboratory environment. With few exceptions, the animals grew and behaved normally, were free of chronic str-ass, and d:tffered from ground controls only for gravity-dependent parameters. One of the monkeys exilibited symptoms of space sickness similar to those o...

A Symmetry Breaking Experiment aboard Mir and the Stability of Rotating Liquid Films

We discuss results from two parts of our study on the behavior of liquids under low-gravity conditions. The first concerns the Interface Configuration Experiment (ICE) aboard the Space Station Mir on the Mir-21/NASA2 mission; for a certain ‘‘exotic’’ container, distinct asymmetric liquid configurations are found as locally stable ones, even though the container itself is rotationally symmetric,...

Effect of colloidal Particles associated with the liquid bridge in sticking during drying in Superheated Steam

It is very important in the design of a drying system is to evaluate sticking behaviour of the materials goes under drying. A new approach to the sticking issue is applied in this study by carrying out a sticking test for the liquid associated with the materials under study. It was found that the liquid bridge is responsible of the initial sticking of the materials to the contact surface and th...