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3 The Role of the Research and Data Analysis Programs
3 The Role of the Research and Data Analysis Programs
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The morphology and growth kinetics of dendrites are sensitive to gravity-driven convective flows in melts. The R&DA program for Microgravity research has been supporting comprehensive experimental investigations of dendritic growth in the absence of gravity.
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R&DA grants provide the support base for NASA-funded academic research, the primary means for training graduate students in space-related disciplines, and opportunities for exposing undergraduates to aerospace science and engineering. it&DA-funded suborbital programs (i.e., balloon, aircraft, and sounding rocket investigations)
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1. The NASA Space Grant College and Fellowship Program exposes K-16 students to space science and technology.
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, Tennessee State University (Center for Automated Space Science) , Tuskegee University (Center for Food and Environmental Systems for Human Exploration of .
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3.1 UNDERSTANDING THE BASIS OF R&DA NASA's science is organized under three enterprises: (1) the space science enterprise managed by the Office of Space Science (OSS)
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Progress in Earth system science is sensitively tied to the research strategy selected to attack these problems.3 3.1.3 Critical Science Questions for the Human Exploration and Development of Space Enterprise Unlike the space and Earth science enterprises, the human exploration and development of space (HEDS ~ enterprise encompasses much that lies beyond concerns usually attributable to science. These range from issues as grand as the expansion of human life beyond Earth to issues as practical as the commercialization of access to space.
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The specific systems and processes of interest span fluid dynamics and transport phenomena, materials science, combustion science, biotechnology, and low-temperature physics. Critical science questions are listed in Box 3.4.
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Theory plays a unifying role in the quest to understand nature by identifying important observational or experimental questions and providing a coherent framework for observations that may at first appear unrelated. Theory includes the development of numerical models and computer simulations that facilitate the broadest feasible applications of data from individual observations and the development of predictive capabilities.
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Major missions were once expected to fund extensive data analysis. With current policies that favor many much smaller missions making more limited observations and with the ascendancy of the ethic that publicly funded space data should rapidly be made public, data synthesis from one or more space missions to validate or refute hypotheses is increasingly the responsibility of R&DA programs.
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