Summary of Operational Capabilities

The Plant Carry On Container (PCOC) is a standard aluminum box, with a hinged cover and latches. Inside the PCOC are an Ambient Temperature Recorder (ATR) to automatically sense and record internal temperatures during the mission, a hex key and seed strips, all of which are attached to the lid of the PCOC. The portion of the PCOC below the lid contains five layers of experiment support hardware. These are packages of experiment soil trays, and experiment plant cubes. The entire package is protected by Pyrel foam into which the soil trays and plant cubes are inserted. They are further contained by Nomex straps and tape.