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LDEF
(redirected from Long Duration Exposure Facility)

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LDEFLong Duration Exposure Facility
LDEFLegal Defense and Education Fund


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The project was one of 57 experiments housed aboard the Long Duration Exposure Facility, which a shuttle crew finally brought back to Earth in January 1990.
When NASA launched the Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) in April 1984, it intended to bring the orbiting, unmanned laboratory back to Earth nine months later.
Early looks at test samples left in space for nearly six years aboard NASA's Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) have revealed surface scars from microscopic meteoroids, thin layers of various materials that were either partially degraded or eroded away, and other signs of damage from the space environment.
 
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