Microgravity Simulation Support Facility (MSSF) Overview The MSSF supports short duration studies utilizing a variety of microgravity simulator devices, including slow rotating 2-D clinostats, rotating wall vessel bioreactors, 3-D clinostats, and random positioning machines. Capabilities Nikon confocal microscope Nikon stereoscop Percival plant growth chambers Thermo CO2 incubators Biological safety cabinets Airbus microgravity simulators Gravite microgravity simulators Panasonic -1500C freezer Nanodrop 2000 Spectrometer CFX96 Realtime PCR Synthecon rotary cell culture system MetaSystems fluorescence microscope & imaging system Easycyte 8 flowcytometer Thermo Scientific -800C ultralow freezer Anna Maria Ruby, project scientist for the ISS Research Office at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, views samples on a microscope in the Microgravity Simulation Support Facility.
NASA/KSC Dr. Ye Zhang, project scientist for the ISS Research Office at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, demonstrates how biological samples are tested in a microgravity simulation device in the Microgravity Simulation Support Facility.
