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Report of the Workshop on Biology-based Technology to Enhance Human Well-being and Function in Extended Space Exploration (1998) / Chapter Skim
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Pages 54-58

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... Once NASA defines these requirements, future workshop participants can apply their technical expertise and creative energies to considering biology-based technologies for which a systematic analysis has already identified significant issues, risks, or opportunities. This approach would simultaneously channel and stimulate imagination and creativity and maximize the usefulness of the results.
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From page 55...
... , for example, maintains a technology watch through its extension services, which transmit information to and from end users of USDA products and services. Other possible mechanisms include routine contact with technology transfer offices in academia and industry, Internet searching and monitoring, publication in peer reviewed journals, formation of academic consortia, establishment of technical advisory con~nittees, and regular workshops at scientific meetings.
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From page 56...
... Laboratory culture methods currently used to screen air and water for microorganisms are primitive, bulky, and unreliable. Advancements in modern microbiological methods such as gene probes and fluorescent antibody techniques could be identified, and, where feasible, used to detect and identify microorganisms in the air and water of spacecraft and planetary habitats, as well as to quantify pollutants there.
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From page 57...
... Extraordinary advances in computer speed and memory have brought cleaning and delivery robots to the point of commercialization for mass markets. By monitoring the field and adapting commercial robots for its own use, NASA might meet mission needs more cost-effectively than by designing small numbers of robots specifically for space applications.
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