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FOAM

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PACE

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SLICE

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Objectives:
	•	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.

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GRC ISS Research Project Schedules
ISS Research Project Schedule (6yr) Rev. 58 – 10/8/10

The Fluids and Combustion Facility
	•	initial payloads refocused on Exploration R&T;
	•	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
	•	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
	•	Novel Applications of Permanent Nonwetting
			Project Scientist: Dr. Walter M. Duval, NASA GRC Principal Investigator: Prof. Paul G. Neitzel, Georgia Institute of Technology
	•	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

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