AGHF aboard LMS Spacelab

ESA's Advanced Gradient Heating Facility (AGHF) flew aboard the Life & Microgravity Sciences (LMS) Spacelab mission in June 1996 for materials processing experiments.
NASA Payload Commander Susan Helms and CNES Payload Specialist Jean-Jacques Favier are seen extracting a processed experiment from the AGHF furnace. It was advisable to have two people performing this delicate operation because scratching the process chamber aperture had to be avoided [Image Date: 1996/06] [98.04.007-012]