has gloss | eng: The Mir Environmental Effects Payload (MEEP) was an International Space Station (ISS) Phase 1 Risk Mitigation Experiment that will provide an assessment of baseline and candidate Space Station materials for the intended operational environment of the International Space Station. MEEP also fulfilled the need to examine the occurrence and effects of man-made debris and natural micrometeoroids through capture and impact studies. The MEEP was deployed on the Mir/Shuttle Docking Module via an extra-vehicular activity (EVA) from the shuttle on STS-76, and was retrieved during STS-86. |