Photographic documentation of Mission Specialist Pierre Thuot checking on a Commercial Protein Crystal Growth Experiment (CPGE) on the Space Shuttle Columbia's middeck during STS-62. The CPGE was designed to produce larger, purer, and more highly structured space-grown crystals for a variety of medical and pharmaceutical purposes.
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NASA
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Photographic documentation of Mission Specialist Pierre Thuot checking on a Commercial Protein Crystal Growth Experiment (CPGE) on the Space Shuttle Columbia's middeck during STS-62. The CPGE was designed to produce larger, purer, and more highly structured space-grown crystals for a variety of medical and pharmaceutical purposes.