NASA SPD News: SPD Team Members Present Papers of commercial space and microgravity research, development subsidization, of commercialspace activities by government as does the collaborative research and http://spd.nasa.gov/news/presenters_05_02.html
Extractions: spd@msfc.nasa.gov The 23rd International Symposium on Space Technology and Science (ISTS) that will be held in Matsue, Japan is the most popular space technology and science conference in Japan. Our own Mark Nall, Joe Casas, and Blake Powers will be presenting papers at the conference from May 26 through June 2. Please see brief summaries of their presentations below: Title: Partnering With Industry for Out of This World Results Presenter: Mark Nall, Manager, NASA MSFC Space Product Development Abstract: True space commercialization can only be achieved through having the broadest possible industrial participation. Commercial paradigms focused solely on commercial launch operations are not sufficient, since there are not yet sufficient markets to support large-scale operations and innovation. Commercial Space Centers partnering with industry can provide the basis for broad non-aerospace investment in space while producing new products and services. This expands the market of space users, while benefiting the economy and the taxpayers.
Extractions: Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics March 22, 2000 Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee: Overview of NIA/NASA Collaborations as well as other Institutes at the NIH, and NASA have supported joint ground/space projects, such as the Neurolab Program and the STS-95 mission. Most of the workshops supported by the NIA and NASA have focused on analysis and comparisons of changes observed during aging and the physical changes induced by space flight ( Chart #1 ). Through the issuance of workshop papers and grant solicitations, or Program Announcements (PA), these workshops have endeavored to stimulate the scientific community to engage in relevant research. The latest NIH-NASA Program Announcement "Earth-Based Research Relevant to the Space Environment," for example, was issued as a result of recommendations that arose from the 1997, NIA-NASA workshop "Aging and Space Flight: Expanding the Science Base" Chart #2 . Following the workshop, a working group of staff from several Institutes at the National Institutes of Health met to develop this collaboration. The resulting PA, which will be published in an upcoming issue of the
Extractions: Human Space Flight and Research Division (Code IH) The Human Space Flight and Research Division supports the international activities of two NASA Enterprises, 1) the Human Exploration and Development of Space Enterprise and 2) the Biological and Physical Research Enterprise . The Division provides dedicated international, interagency, and policy coordination support to the Administrator, the Associate Administrator for External Relations, the Office of Space Flight , the Office of Biological and Physical Research, the Chief Health and Medical Officer, and the Office of Safety and Mission Assurance . This support includes day-to-day international interaction at the Headquarters corporate level on matters related to the International Space Station , the Space Shuttle , Tracking and Communications, and Biological and Physical Research cooperative programs. In 1998, Congress passed the Commercial Space Act of 1998 "to encourage the development of a commercial space industry in the United States". The Act included specific provisions for the commercialization of the International Space Station as a high priority for economic development of low-Earth orbit. The Division works closely with its international partners to coordinate commercial activities through a multilateral consultative working group on commercialization. The Division also supports the coordination of commercialization efforts on the International Space Station through multilateral management boards. Additionally, as new issues related to international participation continue to arise, the Division will assist the Office of Biological and Physical Research in establishing the framework and agreements to best foster NASA's commercialization efforts.
Extractions: DoS and NASA continued negotiations on the formal agreements relative to the International Space Station program. During FY 1995, DoS held five rounds of negotiations between the existing partners and Russia on the Space Station Intergovernmental Agreement. In parallel, NASA continued negotiations with the Russian Space Agency (RSA) on a bilateral memorandum of understanding, as well as with the European, Japanese, and Canadian space agencies on amendments to their respective Space Station memoranda of understanding to reflect Russian involvement in the program and modifications to respective contributions by the partners. The plan for shared design, development, operations, and utilization of the International Space Station already has provided concrete opportunities for successful international collaboration among the various governments, industries, universities, and individual scientists. The ongoing interaction with Russia on the Shuttle- Mir and International Space Station programs has contributed positively to the U.S. policy of encouraging Russia to continue on its course to democratization and a market economy.
Extractions: Research Manager, ISS Program In an earlier ASGSB Newsletter How is the sequence and timing of this research outfitting determined? Given the complexity of the assembly sequence and the lead-time required to develop research facilities and hardware, a strategic long-term plan for research has been developed. The annual update of this strategic plan begins with a definition of the research capabilities of the International Space Station as a function of time. The assembly sequence is used to develop a more detailed description of the research capabilities; the capabilities defined include the available payload upmass, on-orbit space, power, crew time and communications capacity for each year. This year-by-year capability definition is then used by each International Space Station partner to develop a five-year strategic plan, called the Partner Utilization Plan. Each of the five partner agencies (NASA, the Science and Technology Agency of Japan, the European Space Agency, the Canadian Space Agency, and the Russian Space Agency) develops its own Partner Utilization Plan similar to the U.S. Plan. These plans, however, are not developed independently. Careful coordination takes place among the agencies at the research discipline level, which ensures that the plans are not only compatible, but are synergistic and thus produce higher research return.
Announcement And Call For Papers aspects of microgravity Science and Technology, and provide a forum to exploreopportunities for collaborative research activities among scientists and http://www.engconfintl.org/3aubody.html
Extractions: The main objectives of the conference are to exchange technical information and ideas among the various scientists and engineers working in Microgravity Fluid, Thermal, Biological, and Materials Sciences. These areas have become of importance to various disciplines within the broader realm of microgravity research. The conference will address the cross-cutting aspects of microgravity science and technology, and provide a forum for the synthesis of knowledge that has been acquired over the last several years. It is intended to effectively cover the growing interdisciplinary aspects of Microgravity Science and Technology, and provide a forum to explore opportunities for collaborative research activities among scientists and engineers. With several space shuttle experiments that have been conducted over the last two decades, significant new insight has been provided into various physical phenomena under microgravity conditions. There is at present a need to provide direction for microgravity research in which fluid flow and other transport processes to form a common basis for many investigations. The proposed conference will provide the free flow of ideas under this common theme. For example, in Biomedical Engineering and Materials Processing, fluid, thermal and mass-transport aspects have gained primacy among various researchers, and the sharing of expertise has become a necessity for technical progress. With long-term manned space missions in the near future, technical problems encompassing several of these disciplines have been envisioned.
K-12 Educational Program Plan notes on collaborative efforts with specific organizations are included in AppendixA. Products and activities. This section lists a variety of microgravity http://www.ncmr.org/education/k12/k12plan.html
Extractions: Other Resources ... Printable Version 1 June 1998 Introduction Approach While reviewing numerous education documents from different NASA disciplines [1-4], it quickly became clear that the current thrust of most outreach programs is on high-leverage projects. The aim of such projects is to affect more than a single student, class, or teacher, but rather to develop products that can be used by many schools and to train teachers of teachers so that use of products can be implemented across the country. In addition, while the overall theme of educational products developed by the National Center for Microgravity Research will be Microgravity, it should be understood that the underlying emphasis must be on the basic science, mathematics, and engineering principles of fluid physics and combustion science research. This is particularly true for the K-4 levels for which the concept of microgravity is difficult to explain. The National Center will develop microgravity products following the "Guidelines for Developing Microgravity Outreach / Education Materials" established by the NASA Microgravity Research Program Office, Marshall Space Flight Center. These guidelines are: determine goals of project / product identify the audience (grade level, teacher pre-service, teacher in-service)
Astronaut Takao Doi Performed Japan's First Spacewalk. MS Doi participated in the following PAO activities collaborative Ukrainian Experiment(CUE). NSAU (National Space study the effects of microgravity on plant http://jem.tksc.nasda.go.jp/kibo/kibo-j/sts87/sts87news_e.html
Extractions: Second EVA MS Doi and MS Scott conducted the second EVA of this mission from 3:09 p.m. to 8:09 p.m. (4 hour and 49 minute) on Dec. 3. They used the crane to move a small ORU instead of the large ORU and tested the AERCam/Sprint ( a free-flying video camera ), which could not be tested during the first EVA.
Education World ® Helping Kids Deal With The Space Shuttle Tragedy basics of space science, including astronomy and microgravity, and explanations ofNASA includes lesson plans, biographies, collaborative activities, and live http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/profdev042.shtml
Extractions: A R T I C L E On Saturday, February 1, 2003, at just about 8 a.m. CST, the Space Shuttle Columbia, carrying seven astronauts, broke up over Texas, only a few minutes before its scheduled touchdown. Today, Education World offers resources to help you help your students deal with the Columbia tragedy, and to help them understand the history and goals of the U.S. space program. Included: Online resources to teach kids about the Space Shuttle program and to help them cope with the Columbia accident. On Saturday, February 1, 2003, at just about 8 a.m. CST, the Space Shuttle Columbia broke up over Texas. The Shuttle, carrying astronauts David Brown, Rick Husband, William McCool, Michael Anderson, Kalpana Chawla, Laurel Clark, and Ilan Ramon, was only a few minutes from its scheduled touchdown at Floridas Kennedy Space Center. Most likely, your students have spent the weekend inundated by news coverage of the event. As always, when national or international tragedies occur, students need an opportunity to discuss the event and to understand its causes and implications. Some students might be wondering whether the Space Shuttle tragedy was a result of terrorist activities. Others might question why men and women risk their lives for space exploration. Your youngest students, those most likely to personalize the accident, might be afraid of additional falling debris from space.
Extractions: mMaterial Science and Technologyn mBioengineringn mInformation and Systems Sciencen mAdvanced Machine Technologyn ... mList of Publications(1999)n International Cooperative Activities @@@@@The Mechanical Engineering Laboratory encourages its members to be involved with international activities, i.e., international conferences, collaborative research projects and researcher exchange programs with foreign research organizations. @@@@@In 1999, several research staff members were away for periods of up to one year for research work at overseas government laboratories and universities, and about 230 researchers went abroad to present their research work at international conferences or to visit foreign research organizations. @@@@@MEL also makes active use of a variety of researcher invitation programs supported by the Japanese Government and other institutions. In 1999, over 70 foreign researchers visited our laboratory as guest researchers, using fellowship programs supported by the STA, AIST, ITIT, and other organizations. @@@@@The following two figures show the numbers of visits and lengths of stay of invited researchers over the past decade, and the regional distribution of invited foreign researchers for FY1999. The following tables show a list of international cooperative research projects in progress in FY1999, and a list of invitation programs with the number of invited researchers in FY1999.
Space Agencies: An Update However, Germany has a history of collaborative space flight activities with NASA. hardwareflew as part of the International microgravity Laboratory 2 http://lifesci.arc.nasa.gov/lis2/Chapters1_3/Space_Agencies.html
Extractions: Chapter 2 of discussed the history of NASA's international cooperation in space life sciences, from its origins through the early 1990s. In the intervening years, the scope and character of collaborative activities undertaken by NASA Life Sciences has expanded internationally to include additional space agencies and domestically to include other federal organizations. This chapter provides an updated overview of these activities and their participants. The budget and implementation for the U.S. space life sciences research efforts is administered by the headquarters of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Washington, DC. Management of research and development programs is handled by program offices that are governed by NASA headquarters. Ames Research Center Kennedy Space Center Located on the central Atlantic coast of Florida, KSC is NASA's primary base for space launch, landing, and payload processing operations. Center responsibilities include ground and support operations, prelaunch checkout, and launch of the Space Shuttle and its payloads; the landing and recovery of the Shuttle orbiter and payloads; the recovery of the reuseable solid rocket boosters; and subsequent turnaround operations in preparation for future missions. KSC also provides launch support and oversight for NASA activities related to expendable launch vehicle (ELV) missions, primarily from adjacent Cape Canaveral Air Station in Florida and Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
Task Book Tasks Retrieved Page microgravity data taken on PVA dendrites, where neighbors are interacting 8) Continuedthe collaborative activities with other groups pursuing modeling efforts http://research.hq.nasa.gov/taskbook/tb2001/search/retrieve_task.cfm?task_id=947
Research Project Number 33: The Scientific Research Of Artists crews, I speculated that collaborative creative activities of expression as alternativeleisure time activities? processes in a microgravity environment evoke http://www.pietronigro.com/space/04a.htm
Extractions: Living Aloft: Human Requirements for Extended Spaceflight It is my hope that scientists will consider the following relevant scientific questions raised as a part of Research Project 33 as the basis for further investigations. These ideas, hypotheses and questions evolved during the 10 years of research I conducted prior to the 1998 KC135 flight. Considering that meals, sleep and recreation can influence the performance and morale of space crews, I speculated that collaborative creative activities would also enhance person-to-person relationships in space. Specifics for research might include the following: Would the opportunity to create art during space flight motivate one to perform needed physical and mental exercise? Can arm-hand steadiness, finger dexterity, hand-eye coordination, perceptual speed and reaction time all be improved by integrating painting and other forms of expression as alternative leisure time activities? Can heightened experiences of right hemispheric processes in a microgravity environment evoke memories for an individual that would facilitate a sense of safety and satisfaction?
Microgravity Research Program 1995 Annual Report The microgravity program also has collaborative work with FY 1995 was one of NASA'sbiggest years ever for international activities, with the microgravity http://microgravity.nasa.gov/mgar95.html
Extractions: M icrogravity offers scientists another tool, albeit a powerful one, to pursue and enhance their mainstream traditional laboratory science endeavors in biotechnology, combustion science, fluid physics, materials science, and low-temperature microgravity physics. In this way, microgravity experiments compliment an investigators conventional ground-based pursuit of increased understanding of a process or phenomena and provides insight and advancement in knowledge which would otherwise be impossible. T he ongoing challenge faced by NASA's Microgravity Science Research Program in Fiscal Year 1995 and every year is to work with the scientific and engineering communities to secure the maximum return from our Nation's investments by: (1) assuring that the best possible science emerges from the science community for microgravity investigations; (2) ensuring the maximum scientific return from each investigation in the most timely and cost-effective manner; and (3) enhancing the distribution of data and applications of results acquired through completed investigations to maximize their benefits. We continued to meet this challenge in Fiscal Year (FY) 1995. NASA continued to build a solid RESEARCH COMMUNITY of Microgravity Researchers for the coming space station era.
FASEB FY 1997 Report: NASA collaborative Research. the NIH, and allocated $10 million for the new activities.However, Congress allocated these funds for microgravity research and none http://www.faseb.org/opar/consensus97/nasa97.html
Extractions: Biomedical and Related Life Sciences Research, FY 1997 ". . . . A stronger Life Sciences program is an imperative if the the U.S. space policy is to construct a permanently manned Space Station and achieve its stated goal of expanding the human presence beyond Earth orbit into the solar system." Frederick C. Robbins, MD Nobel Laureate (1988) Personal communication to Daniel Fink, Chairman. NASA Advisory Council. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is the only Federal Agency that can explore the role of gravity in living systems. Although hypergravity can be studied on Earth's surface with centrifuges, only by escaping Earth's gravitational force can the influence of gravity on morphology, function, reproduction, and development be determined. Ongoing NASA life science projects include the Life and Microgravity Spacelab Mission (LMS), the U.S. Microgravity Payload Mission (USMP-3), the Neurolab Mission, and a series of missions during which the American Space Shuttle will dock with the Russian Space Station. In recent years, NASA has strengthened the quality of its external merit review of research proposals, has developed strong collaborative research efforts with many individual Institutes within NIH, and has increased its role in educating American students in biomedical issues and challenges surrounding life in space. Selected Accomplishments
Integrated Modeling Of Cardiac Mechanical And Electrical Function conditions to develop simulations of longterm cardiac adaptation to microgravity. Wehave engaged in productive collaborative activities with other members of http://www.nsbri.org/Research/2001-2003/CardioProj13.html
Extractions: Aim 1 : To apply our existing techniques for modeling three-dimensional cardiac mechanics and action potential propagation to develop anatomically detailed three-dimensional dynamic finite element models of regional cardiac electromechanics. Aim 2 : To bridge models and data on cardiac metabolism and cellular dynamics with systems models of coronary flow, central hemodynamics, and cardiovascular regulation. Aim 3 : To develop tools for using available wall motion data from medical imaging in man to validate the mechanoenergetic models and identify myocardial constitutive properties. Aim 4 : To apply new models of geometric and constitutive remodeling in response to chronically altered external loading conditions to develop simulations of long-term cardiac adaptation to microgravity.
ENC: Web Links: Science Topics: Gravity presents an online collaborative project where Learning Coalition, contains astronomylessons and activities. 14 microgravity Science Division, NASA Glenn http://www.enc.org/weblinks/science/0,1578,1-Gravity,00.shtm
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RIACS Research Activities Advanced Visualization and collaborative Virtual Environments for later advanced trainingactivities that require in a simulated microgravity environment while http://www.riacs.edu/research/projects.html
Extractions: NASA Ames has identified four cornerstones of information technology research necessary to meet the future challenges of NASA missions: Autonomous Systems Human-Centered Computing High Performance Computing and Networking Applications of Information Technology RIACS research focuses on all of these areas, as well as collaborating with NASA scientists to apply information technology research to a variety of NASA application domains . RIACS also sponsors a prestigious and competitive Summer Student Research Program , to encourage collaboration between student researchers from universities across the country and NASA-Ames scientists. Research projects are regularly reviewed by an eminent Science Council Deep space exploration requires significant advances in artificial intelligence to support the needed capabilities for autonomous systems. RIACS scientists and visitors have been collaborating with NASA researchers in a number of areas:
