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►About Us
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To learn more about available BioServe space flight
hardware and services click
here. About Us BioServe
Space Technologies is a Center within the University
of Colorado in Boulder,
Colorado. For over 20 years, the Center
has specialized in conducting microgravity life science research and
designing and developing space flight hardware. BioServe has a full suite of flight
certified hardware available for use by its customers and partners. The Center is a full service, turn key
organization that not only provides space flight hardware but can
successfully guide novice and experienced researchers, organizations and
commercial companies through the process of conducting life science research
on board the space shuttle, International Space Station (ISS) or other space
flight vehicle. No other organization
in the country has as extensive experience, knowledge, capabilities and space
flight assets as BioServe in the field of space life science research. BioServe currently has two of its CGBA
units on board the ISS that can be used to process experiments. Our promise to our customers is to make
the experience of conducting space life science research with NASA or other
space transportation providers transparent and easily navigated. BioServe enables its customers and partners
to focus on their research while BioServe manages all the rest. Additionally,
BioServe seeks to encourage and support the increased utilization of the ISS
for fundamental and applied research to the levels envisioned when the
concept of the ISS was formed. The
2005 NASA Authorization Act, which designated a portion of the ISS as a
National Lab, will help make this a reality.
In early 2008, BioServe completed a Space Act Agreement with NASA that
enables BioServe to continue to manifest its hardware and customers’ research
and educational projects in support of the ISS as a National Lab on all
available shuttle missions until shuttle retires in 2010. Once shuttle retires, BioServe will
continue to negotiate manifest space to the ISS on board other transportation
providers. BioServe also seeks to foster commercial research interest in space. The weightless environment
of space flight allows scientists to better understand gravity-dependent
biological phenomena. Commercial
investigations focus on how the space environment can be used as a viable
tool, eventually becoming a value added factor for a commercial product or
process. It is believed that one day
knowledge gained from space life science research could be used to create or
improve terrestrial products, applications or processes. The ultimate goal is for our commercial
customers to develop products that have sufficient value to warrant
manufacturing aboard a space platform with subsequent return to Earth for
sale. BioServe’s Guiding
Principles (Our Vision, Mission and Values)
Photos of BioServe Research Hardware on board the Space Shuttle
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