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Rights & Permissions Free PDF Access Sign in to download PDF book and chapters Free Resources PDF Report Brief Display this book on your site! Related Titles Review of NASA Plans for the International Space Station Recapturing a Future for Space Exploration: Life and Physical Sciences Research for a New Era Other Related Titles Factors Affecting the Utilization of the International Space Station for Research in the Biological and Physical Sciences (2003) Space Studies Board (SSB) Citation Manager Export the bibliographic data for this book in your chosen format Web Search Builder Use this book's key terms to search within this book, across our collection, or across the Web. Skim This Chapter Skim this chapter and use this chapter's key terms to search within this book. Reference Finder Paste in your own text to find books that relate to your topic. Citation Manager . "Prologue." Factors Affecting the Utilization of the International Space Station for Research in the Biological and Physical Sciences. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2003. Please select a format: Page 1   E-mail Share on facebook Facebook Share on delicious Delicious Share on stumbleupon Stumble Share on twitter Twitter More Sharing ServicesMore The following HTML text is provided to enhance online readability. Many aspects of typography translate only awkwardly to HTML. Please use the page image as the authoritative form to ensure accuracy. Prologue This report was first released to the public in prepublication form in September of 2002. Since that time the language of the report has been edited but the body of the report has not been altered to reflect any events that have taken place during the past several months. Two of these events had or are expected to have a significant impact on topics discussed in this report. The first was the passage of the Fiscal Year 2003 Appropriations Bill, which directed that funding be restored for the completion of the ISS combustion rack and for initial development of the advanced animal and plant growth habitats for use on the ISS centrifuge. These were among the several important pieces of experimental equipment cited as issues of concern by the task group. The second event is the catastrophic loss of the space shuttle Columbia with all of its crew on February 1, 2003. This tragedy is expected to have numerous, but currently unknowable, downstream consequences for the future of the International Space Station and laboratory research in space. Page 1 Front Matter (R1-R14) Prologue (1-2) Executive Summary (3-7) 1 Introduction (8-12) 2 Impact of ISS Changes on Physical Sciences Research (13-28) 3 Impact of ISS Changes on Bioastronautics (29-48) 4 Impact of ISS Changes on Fundamental Biology (49-57) 5 Conclusions and Recommendations (58-64) References (65-68) Appendix A: Future Investigations in Materials Science Planned for the ISS (69-71) Appendix B: Planned ISS Combustion-Related Investigations through 2006 (72-72) Appendix C: Future Flight Investigations in Fluid Physics Planned for ISS (73-74) Appendix D: List of ISS Fundamental Physics Experiments 2002-2008 (75-76) Appendix E: Systems Physiology Experiments Planned for the ISS (77-79) Appendix F: Cardiovascular Physiology Experiments (80-80) Appendix G: Future Bone and Muscle Physiology Experiments for ISS (81-81) Appendix H: Radiation Experiments Currently Planned for the ISS (82-82) Appendix I: Future Investigations in Cell and Developmental Biology on the ISS (83-83) Appendix J: Future Experiments in Plant Biology Currently Planned for the ISS (84-84) Appendix K: Acronym List and Glossary (85-85) Appendix L: Excerpt from NASA Authorization Act of FY 2001 (89-89) Appendix M: Short Biographies (90-92)

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Factors Affecting the Utilization of the International Space Station for Research in the Biological and Physical Sciences Prologue This report was first released to the public in prepublication form in September of 2002. Since that time the language of the report has been edited but the body of the report has not been altered to reflect any events that have taken place during the past several months. Two of these events had or are expected to have a significant impact on topics discussed in this report. The first was the passage of the Fiscal Year 2003 Appropriations Bill, which directed that funding be restored for the completion of the ISS combustion rack and for initial development of the advanced animal and plant growth habitats for use on the ISS centrifuge. These were among the several important pieces of experimental equipment cited as issues of concern by the task group. The second event is the catastrophic loss of the space shuttle Columbia with all of its crew on February 1, 2003. This tragedy is expected to have numerous, but currently unknowable, downstream consequences for the future of the International Space Station and laboratory research in space.

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