Long Duration Experiment

NASA’s Long Duration Exposure Facility was a bus-sized satellite that orbited Earth for more than five and a half years, completing more than 32 000 complete orbits.

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It was covered in 86 panels, each of which was a different experiment designed to test what effect long-term exposure to space would have.

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