Spacelab Mission One: The Next Generation (1980)

Spacelab was a European orbital laboratory that containd an observations platform composed of cylindrical pressurized modules and U-shaped unpressurized pallets which remained in the Space Shuttle's cargo bay during flight. Altogether 22 major Spacelab missions between 1983 and 1998 with where carried out with a total of 73 separate investigations in astronomy and physics, atmospheric physics, Earth observations, life sciences, materials sciences, space plasma physics and technology. This was the first time six persons were carried into space on a single vehicle. This documentary film covers the early development and preparation for the first Spacelab mission.

Spacelab was produced by the European Space Research Organisation (ESRO), which was a consortium of ten European countries including: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, West Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Spain Switserland and the United Kingdom.

Images: NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center

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