UAB Engineering Lifts Off with More Projects for NASA
Friday, September 10, 2010 - 09:49
in Astronomy & Space
Engineers at Center for Biophysical Sciences and Engineering earn a $70 million NASA contract renewal to continue to develop and maintain specialized freezers and cooling units that fly aboard the space shuttle and International Space Station. MERLIN and GLACIER are now mainstays of storing biosamples and research experiments, crucial to orbital science.