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Simulating experiments for Spacelab: Measurements of ozone and minor atmospheric constituents

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In June this year a number of flights were made in a NASA CV990 aircraft to evaluate designs for experiments to be carried aboard Spacelab from 1980 onwards. Here five of the groups involved describe what they achieved. NASA and the European Space Agency recently decided to carry out another similar mission next year.

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CARLI, B., MARTIN, D., PUPLETT, E. et al. Simulating experiments for Spacelab: Measurements of ozone and minor atmospheric constituents. Nature 257, 649 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1038/257649a0

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