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Space Shuttle Columbia and Her Crew
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Mission Specialist 4: Laurel Blair
Salton Clark
Laurel Clark, 41, a
commander (captain-select) in the U.S. Navy and a naval
flight surgeon, was Mission Specialist 4 on STS-107.
Clark received a bachelor of science in zoology from the
University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1983 and a doctorate
in medicine from the same school in 1987. Clark, as a
member of the Red Team, worked with the following
experiments: European Space Agency (ESA) Advanced
Respiratory Monitoring System (ARMS); Astroculture
(AST-1 and 2); Biotechnology Demonstration System (BDS);
ESA Biopack (eight experiments); Application of Physical
& Biological Techniques to Study the Gravisensing
and Response System of Plants: Magnetic Field Apparatus
(Biotube-MFA); Closed Equilibrated Biological Aquatic
System (CEBAS); Commercial ITA Biological Experiments
(CIBX); the Microbial Physiology Flight Experiments Team
(MPFE) experiments, which included the Effects of
Microgravity on Microbial Physiology and Spaceflight
Effects on Fungal Growth, Metabolism and Sensitivity to
Antifungal Drugs; Osteoporosis Experiment in Orbit
(OSTEO); the Physiology and Biochemistry Team (PhAB4)
suite of experiments, which included Calcium Kinetics,
Latent Virus Shedding, Protein Turnover and Renal Stone
Risk; Sleep-Wake Actigraphy and Light Exposure During
Spaceflight (SLEEP); and the Vapor Compression
Distillation Flight Experiment (VCD FE).
Selected
by NASA in April 1996, Clark was making her first
spaceflight.
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