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... The unique capabilities of the ISS as a space platform including its relatively large electrical power capacity, pressurized volume, communications capability, external area, available crew time, and logistics capability will enable it to support a wide variety of ERTD activities. However, ERTD experiments on the ISS will have to be carefully designed to meet the high safety standards and potentially complex integration requirements of a large crowed space platform.
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... Other mechanisms, such as auctions and project manager decisions, will often be more appropriate for commercially oriented and mission-driven ERTD. FOCUS ON TlIE CUSTOMER ERTD researchers who work outside NASA currently face unnecessary procedural obstacles in getting their experiments into space, and the support provided to them by NASA centers is uneven.
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... To realize these benefits, however, NASA should strive to ensure that the results of governmentfunded ISS ERTD are incorporated in commercial space efforts, in the ISS and other government space endeavors, and in terrestrial applications. NASA has developed an extensive technology transfer program, but the agency should enhance this program by making available an on-line database of ERTD results, initiating an active effort to improve links between ISS ERTD and potential users, and encouraging exchanges of experts among NASA, industry, and universities.
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... The Department of Defense, federal laboratories, like the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and other federal agencies have successfully used such panels to bring technologies to the market. Commercially funded ERTD on the ISS that leads to new or improved products could also yield benefits to the economy.
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