The Tulane Environmental Astrobiology Center's Kidney Cell Experiment on the Space Station Mir

Because of our cell experiment that went up to the Mir, the Tulane Environmental Astrobiology Center was invited to the shuttle launch in September 1997. The entire lab closed down for three days and set up operations in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Last minute details were gone over with NASA and Russian space officials, and educational visits to the Kennedy Space Center, Visitor Center and IMAX theater were made. As you can see, it was both exhilarating and exhausting.

Tim Hammond points out an old Mercury rocket at the KSC Visitor Center	Exhausted and footsore space cadets Gabriel Navar, Fatime Goda and Tim Hammond recruit their strength for the launch
	Intrepid shoppers include (left to right): Tim Hammond, Fatime Goda, Wendy Campbell, Jim Kaysen and Gabriel Navar.
Jim, Tim and Wendy "walk the walk" on a gantry way leading to an Apollo module	The Explorer Space Shuttle, pictured at the KSC Visitor Center
10:35 PM, the shuttle lifts off	Up, up and away

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