NASA Photo ID: STS047-206-012      File Name: 10064984.jpg
  Film Type: 35mm                    Date Taken: 09/20/92
  Title: STS-47 MS / PLC Lee conducts SLJ experiment M20 using the image furnace
  Description:
  STS-47 Mission Specialist (MS) and Payload Commander (PLC) Mark C. Lee, 
  wearing rubber gloves, prepares to load raw material (or crystal seed 
  material) into the upper shaft (or lower shaft) of the Image Furnace.  Lee
  is  conducting Spacelab Japan (SLJ) experiment M20, Growth of Samarskite
  Crystal  in Microgravity, during which a single crystal will be produced
  using the  traveling solvent float zone method.  The Image Furnace is
  located in SLJ  NASDA Material Sciences Rack 8.  SLJ science module is in
  the payload bay  (PLB) of the Earth-orbiting Endeavour, Orbiter Vehicle
  (OV) 105.              
  Subject terms:
  ASTRONAUTS                              
  CREW EXPERIMENT STATIONS                
  CREW PROCEDURES (INFLIGHT)              
  CREWS                                   
  CRYSTAL GROWTH                          
  ENDEAVOUR (ORBITER)                     
  FURNACES                                
  GLOVES                                  
  ONBOARD ACTIVITIES                      
  RARE EARTH ELEMENTS                     
  SAMPLES                                 
  SPACEBORNE EXPERIMENTS                  
  SPACELAB                                
  STS-47                                  
  

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