NASA Photo ID: STS004-28-330      File Name: 10060806.jpg

Film Type: 35mm CN                Date Taken: 07/04/82

Title: Columbia, OV-102, forward middeck locker experiments and meal tray assemblies

Description:

Overall view of forward middeck locker shows Continuous Flow
Electrophoresis  System (CFES) experiment control and monitoring module and
sample storage  module (on port side) and Monodisperse Latex Reactor (MLR)
(on starboard  side).  Water Dispenser Kit water gun (above CFES module)
and meal tray  assemblies covered with snack food packages and beverage
containers appear  around the two experiments.  Thanks to a variety of
juices and other food  items, this array in the middeck probably represents
the most colorful area  onboard the Earth-orbiting Columbia, Orbiter
Vehicle (OV) 102.  Most of the  meal items have been carefully fastened to
meal tray assemblies (foodtrays)  and locker doors (or both).  What has not
been attached by conventional  methods has been safely "tucked" under
something heavy (note jacket shoved  into space occupied MLR).  MLR is
making its second flight and is designed to  test the flexibility of making
large-size, monodisperse (same size),  polystyrene latex micro-spheres
using the products of STS-3 mission as seed  particles.  The latex spheres
are used in calibration of scientific and  industrial equipment and have
potential for medical and research  applications.