Fast Reaction Experiments Enabling Science, Technology, Applications and Research (FREESTAR)

Abstract

Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) Wallops Flight Facility (WFF) manages NASA's Shuttle Small Payloads Project (SSPP). The SSPP designs, develops, tests, integrates and flies a group of small payload carrier systems for the space shuttle. These carriers - the Hitchhiker, Getaway Specials (GAS), and Space Experiment Module (SEM) - support payloads supplied by NASA, other U.S. government agencies, universities, high schools, domestic commercial customers, and foreign nationals and governments. These carriers can support payloads that range in size between 50 lbs. (23 kg) and 4,000 lbs. (2,270 kg).