Space Shuttle mission STS-107 consist with eighty plus experiments. Around half the experiments are sponsored by commercial businesses for a big profit discovery. Researching investigates human physiology, fire suppression, and other areas associated with people worldwide dedicated by the crew. The names for the Columbia mission are STS standing for “Space Transportation System,” the Space Shuttle, and “107” is the fight trail number” or the 107th fight of the Space Shuttle.

The STS-107 mission began on the morning of January 16, 2003. This 16 day mission’s crew aboard the flight are Rick D. Husband, commander, William C. McCool, pilot, Michael P. Anderson, payload commander, David M. Brown, Mission Specialist 1, Kalpana Chawla, Mission Specialist 2, Laurel Blair Salton Clark, Mission Specialist 4, and Ilan Ramon, Payload Specialist 1. Each payload will perform a sort of different experiments. Here are the main focuses.

There were 38 experiments using Advanced Protein Crystallization Facility (APCF). APCF performs screening experiments under reduced gravity and temperature control conditions. During the space flight, all operations of the APCF unit were controlled automatically by dedicated software. The APCF grew crystals, which were analyzed after the flight. The high quality crystals grown will enable scientists to have a clearer understanding of biological processes at the molecular level.

The Advanced Respiratory Monitoring System (ARMS), monitoring instruments and supplies used to study the heart, lungs, and metabolism were conducted during the STS-107 mission. The data provided shows how the heart and lungs function in space. The data also shows how the nervous system controls the heart and lungs. Holding one’s breath and straining along with exercise tested how heart rate and blood pressure react to different stresses. The results hopefully will improve astronauts’ cardiopulmonary function when they return to earth as well as providing help for patients who must have long-term bed rest.

The STS-107 mission carried the Biobox, a facility that enables biological specimens to be cultivated in microgravity and preserved for analysis after the flight. The Biobox used mammalian cells. Some of the experiments were to study the effects of weightlessness on bone-forming and bone-degrading cells. One experiment explored space radiation’s damaging effects on bone marrow cells.