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THE CAPILLARY FLOW EXPERIMENTS: HANDHELD FLUIDS EXPERIMENTS FOR INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION Mark M. Weislogel* TDA Research Inc., Wheat Ridge, CO 80033-1917 Steven H. Collicott** Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN 47907-1282 Daniel J. Gotti? National Center for Microgravity Research, Cleveland, OH 44135 Charles T. Bunnell? and Carol E. Kurta#, ZIN Technologies Inc., Cleveland, OH 44135 Eric L. Golliher? and John J. Caruso?? NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH 44135 Abstract123456 payloads/experiments program. Two of the flight units are tentatively planned for launch to ISS in NASA is constructing a series of handheld test Fall, 2003. The experiments will be performed in vessels to study key characteristics of low-g stand-alone mode by a single crewmember on capillary flows aboard the International Space the Maintenance Work Area of the ISS. The Station (ISS). The Capillary Flow Experiment specific experimental objectives are briefly (CFE) consists of 6 approximately 1 to 2 kg introduced by way of the crew procedures and a flight units designed to probe certain capillary sample of the as yet unverified theoretical phenomena of fundamental and applied predictions of the fluid behavior is provided. The importance, such as; capillary flow in complex potential impact of the flight experiments on the containers, critical wetting in discontinuous design of spacecraft fluid systems is discussed. stru