NASA, Johnson Space Center, BH3, Houston, TX

A -- A - MICROGRAVITY ENCAPSULATION METHODS SOL NON POC ELENA TORRES, Tel:713-483-8508 Contracting Officer:TRACY HANCOCK, Tel:713-244-5151 NASA Johnson Space Center intends to contract with the Institute for Research, Inc. (IRI) of Houston, TX to provide continued research studies of microencapsulation of anti-tumor drugs using the new Liquid Mixing Apparatus which will be used in the Commercial Materials Instrumentation Experiments payload on STS-69. IRI has co-developed the previous flight experiments conducted in the Materials Dispersion Apparatus on STS-56 and STS-67. The exact formulations of the flight fluids are proprietary and are the subject of a pending joint NASA/IRI patent. IRI is uniquely qualified to prepare these types of flight formulas and in conducting the post flight analyses of the microcapsules returned from space. See Note 22. --r (0209)

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