ISS Increment 4, UF-1 to 8A:

Seed-to-Seed Development of Arabidopsis thaliana in Microgravity, Part 2

Due to the success of the first ADVASC experiment during ISS Increment 2, WCSAR and Space Explorers, Inc. decided to partner again and continue the Arabidopsis thaliana research and Orbital Laboratory project.

RELATED LINKS NASA Information on Increment 4 Advanced Astroculture Flight Unit

The experiment launched with the hardware loaded with 91 Arabidopsis seeds: half were identical to those flown during Increment 2 and half had been produced in space during the Increment 2 experiment. Our goals were to obtain second generation "space" seeds using the first generation "space" seeds, and to harvest living plant tissue for gene expression analysis.

STS-50 - STS-57 - STS-60 - STS-63 - STS-73 - STS-95 - STS-101 - STS-107  /  STS-89/91 - Inc 2 - Inc 4 - Inc 5