NASA Microgravity Exposure Testing G-616 Patch for Sale

NASA Microgravity Exposure Testing G-616 Patch For Sale

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NASA Microgravity Exposure Testing G-616 Patch:
$146.00

The Small Self-Contained Payload G-616 was managed and owned by Thomas M. Hancock III, a space scientist from Redlands, California. G-616 was assigned by NASA to Hancock in 1987. He developed and constructed the primary payload. It was approved for flight in 1988. G-616 originally consisted of 3 experiments:

A study on the effects of low Earth orbit on Space Shuttle External Tank foam – to assess if leaving an ET in space was feasible.

Static Computer Memory Integrity Testing (SCMIT) – looking for soft event upsets (bit-flips) in static computer media

Cultavor Microgravity Exposure (seeds in space). This experiment was to fly over two million seeds of 57 types from all over the world to orbit.