Exploration: To
utilize the ISS as a test bed for technology development, demonstration,
and problem resolution in the areas of life support, fire safety,
power, propulsion, thermal management, etc.
•
Non-Exploration: To
support ground-based, free-flyer, and ISS life and microgravity
science research that is not directly related to supporting the
human exploration program.
Goals:
To provide ground-based
and space flight hardware that will support the generation of research
data for science and technology experiments.
Heritage:
•
Office
of Biological and Physical Research Program
•
Microgravity
Research Program
•
Advanced
Life Support/Life Support and Habitation Program
•
Life
Science Program
These projects investigate gravity-dependent
physical science phenomena of both a fundamental basic science and applied
engineering technology nature. These projects support technology
development for:
•
Advanced
Extra Vehicular Activities
•
Advanced
Life Support
•
Advanced
Materials
•
Fire
Prevention, Detection, and Suppression
•
Fluids
Management
•
Multiphase
Flow Technology
•
Propellant
Management
•
Thermal
Control
Five
experiments currently on ISS and operating from the GRC Telescience
Center on a time-available basis include SAMS/MAMS, CFE, BCAT-3, SAME
and CSLM-2.
Based
upon Congressional direction for the 15% Non-Exploration Research
Program on ISS, HQ's has reinstituted some previously terminated research
investigations.
Engineering
Pre-Ship Review (PSR1) conducted in Dec 2005; PSR2 was conducted
in Apr 2007;
•
CIR
launches in September 2008 on ULF-2 and FIR launches in May 2008
on17A. FCF will go into storage at
GRC until shipment at L-6;
•
Preparations
for payload integration & operations, crew training, and sustaining
engineering continue.
ISS Non-Exploration Ground-Based Grants
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Flame
Design
Project Scientist: Dr. Dennis
Stocker, NASA GRC
Principal Investigator: Prof. Richard Axelbaum,
Washington University - St. louis
•
S
Flame
Project Scientist: Dr.
Dennis Stocker, NASA GRC
Principal Investigator: Prof. C. K. Law, Princeton University
•
Fuel
Dilution Studies of Coflow Laminar Diffusion Flames in a Microgravity
Environment
Project Scientist: Dr.
Dennis Stocker, NASA GRC
Principal Investigator: Prof. Marshall Long, Yale University
•
Applications
of Electric Fields in Microgravity Combustion Science
Project Scientist: Dr.
Dennis Stocker, NASA GRC
Principal Investigator: Prof. D. Dunn-Rankin, University of California
- Irvine
•
Self-Structuring
in Dusty Plasmas
Project Scientist: Dr. Arnon
Chait, NASA GRC
Principal Investigator: Prof. John Goree, University
of Iowa
•
The
Melting of Aqueous Foams (Foam Optics and Mechanics)
Project Scientist: Dr. Padetha
Tin, NASA GRC
Principal Investigator: Prof. Doug Durian, University
of Pennsylvania
•
Structure
and Dynamics of Freely Suspended Liquid Crystals
Project Scientist: Dr. Padetha
Tin, NASA GRC Principal Investigator:Prof.
Noel A. Clark, University of Colorado - Boulder
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Novel Applications of Permanent Nonwetting
Project Scientist: Dr. Walter
M. Duval, NASA GRC
Principal Investigator: Prof. Paul G. Neitzel,
Georgia Institute of Technology
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Direct Computational Simulations and Experiments
for Internal Condensing Flows System-Instabilities/Dynamics in Microgravity
and Terrestrial Environments
Project Scientist: Dr. Mohammad
Hasan, NASA GRC
Principal Investigator: Prof. Amitabh Narain,
Michigan Technological University
•
Macromolecule
Adsorption and Bubble Adhesion to Model Endothelial Surface Layers
Project Scientist:
Principal Investigator: Prof. David M. Eckmann
, University of Pennsylvania