Inside Endeavour's cargo bay the four TEAMS experiments operated throughout the mission. Pilot Curtis Brown prepares to activate the Fluids Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus (FGBA) 2, on the middeck. The antenna structure was then jettisoned and the SPARTAN-207 spacecraft recovered at mission end. It tested the performance of a large inflatable antenna during a ninety-minute mission. The Goddard Space Flight Center's (GSFC) Spartan-207 satellite was used to deploy and test the Inflatable Antenna Experiment (IAE) which laid the groundwork for future technology development in inflatable space structures. Another facility on SPACEHAB was the Space Experiment Facility (SEF) which grew crystals by vapor diffusion. It heated various samples of electronic and semiconductor material through the float-zone technique. One of these, the Commercial Float Zone Facility (CFZF) was developed through international collaboration between the U.S., Canada, and Germany. The SPACEHAB single module carried nearly 1,400 kilograms (3,100 lb) of experiments and support equipment for 12 commercial space product development payloads in the areas of biotechnology, electronic materials, polymers and agriculture as well as several experiments for other NASA payload organizations. A suite of four technology experiments known as the Technology Experiments for Advancing Missions in Space (TEAMS) also flew in the Shuttle's payload bay. The mission also deployed and retrieved the Spartan-207/IAE (Inflatable Antenna Experiment) satellite and rendezvoused with a test satellite. During the flight the crew performed microgravity research aboard the commercially owned and operated SPACEHAB module. NASA's flight of shuttle Endeavour was devoted to opening the commercial space frontier. The defense and aerospace technology company L'Garde was responsible for the design and manufacture of the Antenna in the Inflatable Antenna Experiment, a key component of the STS-77 mission. The mission began from launch pad 39B from Kennedy Space Center, Florida on lasting 10 days and 40 minutes and completing 161 revolutions before landing on runway 33. STS-77 was the 77th Space Shuttle mission and the 11th mission of the Space Shuttle Endeavour.
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