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From: Staffs, UK
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posted 03-29-2005 10:11 AM            

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Fred is the Phantom Torso, an approximately 95-pound, 3 foot high mockup of a human upper body. Beneath Fred's artificial skin are real bones. Fred's organs -- the heart, brain, thyroid, colon and so on -- are made of a special plastic that matches as closely as possible the density of human tissue.

Is this still onboard ISS - anyone know?

Phill
UK

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From: Huntsville, AL, USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted 03-29-2005 10:44 AM               

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The Phantom Torso was brought back on STS-105.
http://spaceresearch.nasa.gov/research_projects/ros/ptorso.html

But there is a similar experiment on Station now.
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/iss_dummy_040226.html

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Posts: 2113
From: Staffs, UK
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posted 05-05-2005 11:23 AM            

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David - thanks for that info.
I'll lookup ref sites.

Thanks

Phill