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  title info:
    title: Recapturing a future for space exploration
    sub title: life and physical sciences research for a new era
  name:
    name part: National Research Council (U.S.)
    name part: Committee for the Decadal Survey on Biological and Physical Sciences in Space.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: National Research Council (U.S.)
    name part: Space Studies Board.
  name:
    name part: National Research Council (U.S.)
    name part: Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: dcu
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xx, 444 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm.
  abstract: 'More than four decades have passed since a human first set foot on the Moon. Great strides have been made in our understanding of what is required to support an enduring human presence in space, as evidenced by progressively more advanced orbiting human outposts, culminating in the current International Space Station (ISS). However, of the more than 500 humans who have so far ventured into space, most have gone only as far as near-Earth orbit, and none have traveled beyond the orbit of the Moon. Achieving humans' further progress into the solar system had proved far more difficult than imagined in the heady days of the Apollo missions, but the potential rewards remain substantial. During its more than 50-year history, NASA's success in human space exploration has depended on the agency's ability to effectively address a wide range of biomedical, engineering, physical science, and related obstacles--an achievement made possible by NASA's strong and productive commitments to life and physical sciences research for human space exploration, and by its use of human space exploration infrastructures for scientific discovery. The Committee for the Decadal Survey of Biological and Physical Sciences acknowledges the many achievements of NASA, which are all the more remarkable given budgetary challenges and changing directions within the agency. In the past decade, however, a consequence of those challenges has been a life and physical sciences research program that was dramatically reduced in both scale and scope, with the result that the agency is poorly positioned to take full advantage of the scientific opportunities offered by the now fully equipped and staffed ISS laboratory, or to effectively pursue the scientific research needed to support the development of advanced human exploration capabilities. Although its review has left it deeply concerned about the current state of NASA's life and physical sciences research, the Committee for the Decadal Survey on Biological …
  table of contents: Introduction -- Review of NASA's program evolution in the life and physical sciences in low-gravity and microgravity environments -- Conducting microgravity research: U.S. and International Facilities -- Plant and microbial biology -- Behavior and mental health -- Animal and human biology -- Crosscutting issues for humans in the space environment -- Fundamental physical sciences in space -- Applied physical sciences -- Translation to space exploration systems -- The role of the international space station -- Establishing a life and physical sciences research program: programmatic issues -- Establishing a life and physical sciences research program: an integrated microgravity research portfolio.
  note: Committee for the Decadal Survey on Biological and Physical Sciences in Space ; Space Studies Board ; Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, National Research Council of the National Academies.
  note: Also available in Open Book format via the National Academies Press home page.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    geographic code: zo-----
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    geographic: Outer space
    topic: Exploration
  subject:
    geographic: Outer space
    topic: Exploration
    topic: International cooperation
  subject:
    topic: Earth sciences
    topic: Research
    geographic: United States
    topic: Management
  subject:
    topic: Space sciences
    topic: Research
    geographic: United States
    topic: Management
  classification: TL858 .N387 2011
  identifier: 9780309163842
  identifier: 0309163846
  identifier: http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php
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      url: http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php
  record info:
    record content source: BTCTA
    record creation date: 110610
    record change date: 20151202150957.0
    record identifier: in00002742569
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng