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Shuttle to Carry Rensselaer Experiment to International Space Station
August 24, 2009
TROY, N.Y., Aug. 24 -- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute issued the following news release:

An experimental heat transfer system designed by researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is scheduled to depart Earth aboard Space Shuttle Discovery. Astronauts will install the system into a laboratory of the International Space Station, where it will remain for up to three years.

The project, called the Constrained Vapor Bubble (CVB), could yield important fundamenta . . .

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