General Information

Serial #

1

Part Number

5

Total Parts

24

AKA

V/F CONVERTER

Patents

N/A

General Description

METAL CASING WITH SYNTHETIC PARTS

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

15.3 cm

Width

9.7 cm

Height

6.0 cm

Thickness

N/A

Weight

N/A

Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Space Technology

Category

Manned spacecraft

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

CAE

Country

Canada

State/Province

Québec

City

Montréal

Context

Country

Unknown

State/Province

Unknown

Period

1992

Canada

CANADIAN DESIGNED SET OF MICROGRAVITY EXPERIMENTS WHICH WAS CANADA'S CONTRIBUTION TO INTERNATIONAL MICROGRAVITY LABORATORY ON U.S. SPACE SHUTTLE. EQUIPMENT WAS DESIGNED AT AEROSPACE MEDICAL RESEARCH UNIT OF MCGILL UNIVERSITY; FLIGHT & FLIGHT ALTERNATE MODELS WERE BUILT BY CANADIAN FIRM CAE ELECTRONICS OF MONTREAL.

Function

EQUIPMENT USED DURING SPACE SHUTTLE FLIGHT IN GROUP OF SPACE PHYSIOLOGY EXPERIMENTS TO INVESTIGATE EFFECTS OF MICROGRAVITY ON HUMAN BODY - SPACE ADAPTATION SYNDROME. EXPERIMENTS INCLUDED SLED EXP., ROTATION EXP., VISUAL STIMULATOR EXP., PROPRIOCEPTION (RELAXED) EXP., PROPRIOCEPTION (ACTIVE) EXP., PROPRIOCEPTION (ILLUSIONS) EXP., & TACTILE ACUITY EXP.

Technical

Unknown

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

Plates reading ‘V/F CONV' & ‘V/F CONV/ P/N McGAMRU-013/ S/N 001'

Missing

N/A

Finish

Flat grey metal casing with plated parts & multi-coloured synthetic parts.

Decoration

N/A