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1 Introduction
Pages 11-16

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... The European Space Agency, Russian Federal Space Agency, Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, Canadian Space Agency, and Chinese National Space Administration are among the many international agencies now working to make substantial progress in exploration. Furthermore, the continued leadership of the United States in space activities depends on clear goals for the research program and a consistent level of fiscal support for implementation of such programs.
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... Information, perspectives, and advice were obtained from the general public and experts in the field through town halls at professional society meetings and from solicited white papers from informed and concerned scientists. Various representatives of past and current NASA programs, experts from a range of disciplines, and speakers from private companies that are increasingly involved in space exploration all provided briefings to the panels and the committee.
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... Meeting these scientific challenges will require an understanding of biological and physical processes, as well as their interaction, in the presence of partial-gravity and microgravity environments. In the context of extraordinary advances in the life and physical sciences and with the realization that national policy decisions will continue to shift near-term exploration goals, the committee focused on surveying broadly and intensively the scientific issues necessary to advance knowledge in the next decade.
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... While defining translational research uniformly across life and physical sciences is challenging, the committee has, for the purpose of this report, defined it as "the effective translation of knowledge, mechanisms, and techniques generated in one scientific domain, such as basic or fundamental science, into new scientific tools or applications that advance research in another scientific domain, such as clinical or applied science." As noted previously, final panel recommendations resulted from a joint process in which the advisory panels interacted with each other and with the survey committee. The resulting set of highest-priority research recom mendations form the basis of the research portfolio laid out in Chapter 13.
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... 2009. America's Future in Space: Aligning the Civil Space Program with National Needs.
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  • decadal survey
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  • applied science
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  • earth orbit

  • crew health
  • low earth
  • physical research
  • space environment
  • federal space

  • space activities
  • biological research
  • european space
  • canadian space
  • national space

  • healthy space
  • space shuttle
  • research linking
  • space technologies
  • integrated research

  • affordable space
  • advance research
  • space remains
  • space program
  • studying space


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