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Get Away Special (GAS)
Mission type
Various
Operator
NASA
Shuttle Small Payloads Project
Getaway Special was a NASA program that offered interested individuals, or groups, opportunities to fly small experiments aboard the Space Shuttle. Over the 20-year history of the program, over 170 individual missions were flown.[1] The program, which was officially known as the Small, Self-Contained Payloads program, was canceled following the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster on February 1, 2003.
^"Get Away Special - What's New". Gas Away Special - NASA GSFC. NASA GSFC. June 4, 2004. Archived from the original on June 4, 2004. Retrieved June 15, 2016. To commemorate 20 years of flight and 167 individual missions of the Get Away Special (GAS) Program, the Shuttle Small Payloads Project Office (Code 870) held an Open House on June 27, 2002 at the Goddard Visitor Center.
GetawaySpecial was a NASA program that offered interested individuals, or groups, opportunities to fly small experiments aboard the Space Shuttle. Over...
understand bio-physiological effects of space flight; and activated four "GetawaySpecial" canisters. STS-8 completed 98 orbits of the Earth in 145 hours before...
various Earth resources and space science experiments along with four "GetawaySpecial" canisters. STS-8 completed 98 orbits of the Earth in 145 hours before...
in-flight repair which enabled them to activate the first operational "GetawaySpecial" (composed of nine experiments that ranged from algae and duckweed...
in-flight repair which enabled them to activate the first operational "GetawaySpecial" — comprising nine experiments that range from algae and duckweed growth...
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conducted numerous in-cabin experiments as well as activating eight "GetawaySpecial" canisters. Dave Leestma and Kathryn Sullivan successfully conducted...
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