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> Atlantis lifted off from Kennedy Space Center to deliver a human skull What?! I don't have time right now to read the entire article, but I did read maybe 1/
by callinyouin 8y ago
> Atlantis lifted off from Kennedy Space Center to deliver a human skull
What?! I don't have time right now to read the entire article, but I did read maybe 1/4th of it and didn't see any other mention of this payload. There's also no mention of the word "skull" anywhere else on the page. Why in hell would a human skull be shot into orbit??
- ASalazarMX 8y agoCalm down, it was part of the skeleton crew.
- azthecx 8y agoWhere they trying to create a skeleton key?
- jloughry 8y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-36 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-36 It was an experiment to test radiation effects; the In-flight Radiation Dose Distribution (IDRD) experiment: This joint NASA/DoD experiment was designed to examine the penetration of radiation into the human cranium during spaceflight. The female skull was seated in a plastic matrix, representative of tissue, and sliced into ten layers. Hundreds of thermo-luminescent dosimeters were mounted in the skull's layers to record radiation levels at multiple depths. This experiment, which also flew on STS-28 and STS-31, was located in the shuttle's mid-deck lockers on all three flights, recording radiation levels at different orbital inclinations.