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| Objectives: | ||
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• | Exploration Research: To utilize the ISS as a low technology readiness level (TRL) test bed for technology development, demonstration and problem resolution in the areas of life support, fire safety, power, propulsion, thermal management, materials, habitat design, etc. |
| • | Non-Exploration Research: To conduct research in the life (non-human) and physical sciences, not directly related to supporting the human exploration program. The program will sustain, to the maximum extent practicable, the Unites States scientific expertise and research capability in fundamental microgravity research. | |
| Goals: | ||
| To provide ground-based and space flight hardware that will support the generation of research data for science and technology experiments. | ||
| Heritage: | ||
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• | Office of Biological and Physical Research Program |
| • | Microgravity Research Program | |
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• | Advanced Life Support/Life Support and Habitation Program |
| • | Life Science Program | |
| Center specific project listing : | ||
| Ames Research Center | ||
| • | Bion M-1 | |
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• | EMCS-TROPI (European Modular Cultivation System -Gravitropism) |
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• | FIT (Fungal Pathogenesis, Tumerogenesis, and Effects on Host Immunity in Space) |
| • | Foton-M3 | |
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• | MicroSatellite Free Flyers (MSat-FF) |
| • | Ground Animal Research and BSP | |
| • | Leukin (Role of the interleukin-2 receptor in signal transduction) | |
| • | Microbe (Effect of Spaceflight on Microbial Gene Expression and Virulence in S. typhimurium, P. aeruginosa, C. albicans) | |
| • | MicroSat-1 (PharmaSat) | |
| • | PKINASE (Mechanisms and functional consequences of protein kinase C isoform translocation inhibition in monocytes exposed to microgravity.) | |
| • | SPEGIS (Streptococcus Pneumoniae Expression of Genes In Space) | |
| Glenn Research Center | ||
| Combustion Integrated Rack (CIR) | ||
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• | Advanced Combustion via Microgravity Experiments (ACME) |
| • | Flammability Assessment of Materials for Exploration (FLAME) | |
| • | Multi-User Droplet Combustion Apparatus (MDCA) | |
| • | Flame Extinguishment Experiment (FLEX) | |
| • | Flame Extinguishment Experiment-2 (FLEX-2) | |
| Fluids Integrated Rack (FIR) | ||
| • | Colloids (LMM-Colloids)/ Light Microscopy Module (LMM) | |
| • | Observation and Analysis of Smectic Islands in Space (OASIS)/ Light Microscopy Module (LMM) | |
| • | Light Microscopy Module (LMM)/ Constrained Vapor Bubble (CVB) | |
| MWA | ||
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• | Binary Colloidal Alloy Test (BCAT-3 / BCAT-3+ / BCAT-4 / BCAT-5 / BCAT-6) |
| • | Capillary Flow Experiments (CFE) | |
| MSG | ||
| • | Boiling Experiment Facility (BXF) | |
| • | Capillary Channel Flow (CCF) | |
| • | Coarsening in Solid-Liquid Mixtures-2 (CSLM-2) | |
| • | Investigating the Structures of Paramagnetic Aggregates from Colloidal Emulsions-2 (InSPACE-2) | |
| • | Smoke Aerosol Measurement Experiment (SAME) | |
| • | Dust and Aerosol measurement Feasibility Test (DAFT) | |
| • | Shear History Extensional Rheology Experiment (SHERE) | |
| • | Smoke Point in Coflow Experiment (SPICE) | |
| • | Zero Boil-Off Tank Experiment (ZBOT) | |
| • | Zero Boil-Off Tank Experiment-2 (ZBOT-2) | |
| MSL | ||
| • | Self-Structuring in Dusty Plasmas (DustyP) (PK-3+) | |
| • | Foam Optics And Mechanics (FOAM) | |
| Expendable Launch Vehicles | ||
| • | Gradient Driven Fluctuations Experiment (GRADFLEX) | |
| Acceleration Measurements | ||
| • | Space Acceleration Measurement Systems (SAMS) | |
| • | Microgravity Acceleration Measurement System (MAMS) | |
| Kennedy Space Center | ||
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• | Exploration Lighting Technologies |
| • | Sensor Validation in Variable Pressure Environments | |
| • | Space Life Sciences Lab Core Capability | |
| • | Technology Infusion using ISS | |
| • | Exploration Life Support Project – Air Revitalization Systems | |
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• | Payload Processing and Development (including APEX & VPU) |
| Marshall Space Flight Center | ||
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• | Dynamic Selection of Three-Dimensional Interface Patterns in Directional Solidification (DSIP) |
| • | Fluid Merging Viscosity Measurements (FMVM) | |
| • | Crystal Growth of Ternary Compound Semiconductors (GTS) | |
| • | Microgravity Science Glovebox (MSG) | |
| • | Materials Science Research Rack (MSRR) | |
| • | Quasi-Crystalline Undercooled Alloys for Space Investigation (QUASI) | |
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