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Iowa engineers prepare PDP for Space Shuttle Columbia flight
Iowa researchers and technicians led by Roger D. Anderson gear up for the Plasma Diagnostics Package aboard Space Shuttle Columbia, a five year effort involving 69 people. The PDP, under 400 pounds, will study plasma near 150 miles up and test an electron beam in space.
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Roger D. Anderson
Columbia
Space
Anderson
Iowa
U of I
Mission Control
Earth
Utah State University
Colorado
Maryland
Houston
Cape Canaveral
Fla
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
PDP
Mary
Swisher
U of I’s College of Medicine
Fountain
Iowa City
Jupiter
University of Iowa