NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Steve Roy
Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala.
(Phone: 256.544.0034)
Photo release: 05-093


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Charles Darby is the manager of the Payload and Facility Systems Engineering and Integration Office at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. He leads the team that ensures research equipment and facilities work within the specifications and physical dimensions of the International Space Station -- the orbiting research complex that NASA and 15 other nations are building some 200 miles above Earth.

One such facility is the Microgravity Science Glovebox. A glovebox, similar to the one behind Darby, was delivered to the Space Station in 2002. A sealed container with built in gloves on its sides and fronts, the glovebox enhances the Station’s science capabilities by providing a facility where the crew can work safely with experiments involving fluids, flames, particles and fumes. (NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center/Emmett Given)

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