Paragon Space Development Corporation
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Paragon Space Development Corporation is a company in Tucson, Arizona
. It was founded by Jane Poynter
and Taber MacCallum
. They have supplied hardware to more than 70 spaceflight missions, including ones to the International Space Station
and Mir
. Products include a dish for organ culture
, a sealed ecological system
incorporating aquatic plants and other organisms, and a facility for testing Environmental Control and Life Support Systems (ECLSS) equipment. Some of their products also aim at non-space extreme environments, such as first responders and diving suit
s.
Tucson, Arizona
Tucson is a city in and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States. The city is located 118 miles southeast of Phoenix and 60 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border. The 2010 United States Census puts the city's population at 520,116 with a metropolitan area population at 1,020,200...
. It was founded by Jane Poynter
Jane Poynter
Jane Poynter is an author, businesswoman and environmentalist. Poynter was one of the original crewmembers of Biosphere 2. Along with seven other individuals, Poynter was confined to the sealed environment for two years....
and Taber MacCallum
Taber MacCallum
Taber MacCallum is one of the original crewmembers of Biosphere 2. As one of the eight participants of the two-year mission inside the materially closed ecological system, MacCallum served as the team's analytical chemist....
. They have supplied hardware to more than 70 spaceflight missions, including ones to the International Space Station
International Space Station
The International Space Station is a habitable, artificial satellite in low Earth orbit. The ISS follows the Salyut, Almaz, Cosmos, Skylab, and Mir space stations, as the 11th space station launched, not including the Genesis I and II prototypes...
and Mir
Mir
Mir was a space station operated in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001, at first by the Soviet Union and then by Russia. Assembled in orbit from 1986 to 1996, Mir was the first modular space station and had a greater mass than that of any previous spacecraft, holding the record for the...
. Products include a dish for organ culture
Organ culture
Organ culture is a development from tissue culture methods of research, the organ culture is able to accurately model functions of an organ in various states and conditions by the use of the actual in vitro organ itself....
, a sealed ecological system
Closed ecological system
Closed ecological systems are ecosystems that do not rely on matter exchange with any part outside the system.The term is most often used to describe small manmade ecosystems...
incorporating aquatic plants and other organisms, and a facility for testing Environmental Control and Life Support Systems (ECLSS) equipment. Some of their products also aim at non-space extreme environments, such as first responders and diving suit
Diving suit
A diving suit is a garment or device designed to protect a diver from the underwater environment. A diving suit typically also incorporates an air-supply .-History:...
s.
External links
- Paragon Space Development Corporation
- Jane Poynter website
- Biosphere 2 website
- Commercial Spaceflight FederationCommercial Spaceflight FederationThe Commercial Spaceflight Federation is a private spaceflight industry group, incorporated as an industry association for the purposes of establishing ever higher levels of safety for the commercial human spaceflight industry, sharing best practices and expertise, and promoting the growth of the...
- Paragon Space Development Corporation (2007), Miniature Ecosystems Return From Space Station MIR