Editing Spacelab (section)

===Pallet===
[[File:STS-75 Tethered Satellite System deployment.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.0|[[Space tether|Tethered]] Satellite System deployment, deployed from Spacelab pallet]]

The Spacelab Pallet is a U-shaped platform for mounting instrumentation, large instruments, experiments requiring exposure to space, and instruments requiring a large field of view, such as telescopes. The pallet has several hard points for mounting heavy equipment. The pallet can be used in single configuration or stacked end to end in double or triple configurations. Up to five pallets can be configured in the Space Shuttle cargo bay by using a double pallet plus triple pallet configurations.

The Spacelab Pallet used to transport both [[Canadarm2]] and [[Dextre]] to the International Space Station is currently at the [[Canada Aviation and Space Museum]], on loan from NASA through the [[Canadian Space Agency]] (CSA).<ref name=SLP-D1>{{cite web |url=http://aviation.technomuses.ca/media/press_releases/20sep12/ |title=Spacelab pallet completes its long journey arriving at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum}}</ref>

A Spacelab Pallet was transferred to the [[Swiss Museum of Transport]] for permanent display on 5 March 2010. The Pallet, nicknamed ''Elvis'', was used during the eight-day STS-46 mission, 31 July – 8 August 1992, when ESA astronaut [[Claude Nicollier]] was on board Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'' to deploy ESA's [[European Retrievable Carrier]] (Eureca) scientific mission and the joint NASA/ASI ([[Italian Space Agency]]) [[space tether|Tethered Satellite System]] (TSS-1). The Pallet carried TSS-1 in the Shuttle's cargo bay.<ref name=ESA-STS46>{{cite web |url=https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Operations/ESA_hands_over_a_piece_of_space_history |title=ESA hands over a piece of space history |publisher=ESA}}</ref>

Another Spacelab Pallet is on display at the U.S. [[National Air and Space Museum]] in [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.si.edu/exhibitions/spacelab-pallet-3462 |title=Spacelab Pallet}}</ref> There was a total of ten space-flown Spacelab pallets.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.space.com/23796-spacelab-space-shuttle-30-years-anniversary.html |title=Spacelab: Space Shuttle Flew Europe's First Space Module 30 Years Ago |date=2 December 2013 |publisher=Space.com}}</ref>