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Plant growth experiment starts in Columbus

29 February 2008

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Waving and coiling in Arabidopsis seedlings

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Arabidopsis seedlings tilted at 45 degrees on hard agar surface. (Top) Wild type seedlings showing more root waving. (Bottom) Mutant strain showing more root coiling.

Credits: G. Scherer

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Biolab (artist's impression). Biolab is a facility designed to support biological experiments on micro-organisms, cells, tissue cultures, small plants and small invertebrates. The major objective of performing Life Sciences experiments in space is to identify the role that weightlessness plays at all levels of an organism, from the effects on a single cell up to a complex organism including humans. The Biolab facility will be launched inside the European Columbus laboratory.

Credits: ESA - D. Ducros

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Installation of the European Columbus laboratory on the starboard port of the Harmony module. Columbus was launched into orbit with Space Shuttle Atlantis on the STS-122 mission. Columbus was installed during the mission's first spacewalk on 11 February 2008.

Credits: NASA

Columbus Mission