An Hg0.84Zn0.16 Te alloy crystal was back-melted and partially resolidified during the first United States Microgravity Laboratory mission in the Marshall Space Flight Center's Crystal Growth Furnace. The experiment was inadvertently terminated at about 30% of planned completion. Nonetheless, it was successfully demonstrated that a HgZnTe alloy ingot partially grown and quenched on the ground can be back-melted and regrown in space under nearly steady-state growth conditions. An identical "ground-truth" experiment was performed following the mission and a comparison between the properties of the crystals is described. The results indicate the importance of residual microgravity acceleration (less than or similar to 0.4 mug) even in the submicrogravity range for the slow solidification velocities and large density gradients. Published by Elsevier Science B.V.