Recapturing a Future for Space Exploration Life and Physical Sciences Research for a New Era (2011) / Chapter Skim
Currently Skimming:
2 Review of NASA's Program Evolution in the Life and Physical Sciences in Low-Gravity and Microgravity Environments
2 Review of NASA's Program Evolution in the Life and Physical Sciences in Low-Gravity and Microgravity Environments
Pages 17-22
The Chapter Skim interface presents what we've algorithmically identified as the most significant single chunk of text within every page in the chapter.
Select key terms on the right to highlight them within pages of the chapter.
From page 17... ...
Rather than maintaining the life and physical sciences research program as a partner to cognate sci ence programs constituting NASA's research portfolio -- e.g., astronomy, Earth science, astrophysics, and planetary science -- the senior management at NASA came to view "microgravity sciences" as supportive of, and subordinate to, the agency's major space programs aimed at developing human spaceflight operations. Thus, the life and physi cal sciences research program was relocated within the infrastructure of spaceflight operations rather than being an equal partner with NASA's other science programs.
|
From page 18... ...
that dedicated microgravity life and physical sciences research began within NASA. In total, eleven crew missions were completed: two involved Earth-orbiting; two lunar orbiting; one lunar swing-by; and six Moonlanding missions.
|
From page 19... ...
A similar review model was used in the physical sciences. The first life sciences mission was set for the mid-1980s but was postponed until 1991 following the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, after which shuttle missions were suspended until NASA deemed that it was safe to continue the shuttle program.
|
From page 20... ...
CURRENT STATUS AND POTENTIAL OF THE LIFE AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH PROGRAMS From the inception of the International Space Station (ISS) program, elaborate plans were made by NASA and its international partners, especially the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency and the European Space Agency, to outfit the ISS as a world-class research laboratory for undertaking cutting-edge research and to provide opportunities that would expand research in microgravity to periods longer than 6 months.
|
From page 21... ...
2003. Assessment of Directions in Microgravity and Physical Sciences Research at NASA.
|
Key Terms
This material may be derived from roughly machine-read images, and so is provided only to facilitate research.
More
information on Chapter Skim is available.