THE ESA MICROGRAVITY DATABASE

To facilitate and optimise access to the results of previous micrograv ity experiments, ESA is establishing a Microgravity Database (MGDB). T he database will give scientists access to descriptions of all experim ents related to microgravity research carried out on ESA and NASA miss ions since the 1960s. MGDB incorporates both a local database availabl e for PCs and Apple Macintoshes, and a remote database which can be ac cessed via the ESRIN Data Dissemination Network (DDN) and public X.25 networks.