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... Following their joint meeting last November 4 with you, Bryan O'Connor, and Harry C Holloway concerning planning for the space station, the Space Studies Board's Committee on Space Biology and Medicine (CSBM)
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... The two committees expect to consider the station's capabilities for enabling scientific research at a later date when its design is better defined. The role of OLMSA in managing the space station research program, and some recommendations regarding pre-station use of the space shuttle for preparatory research and cooperative research opportunities on Russian facilities, are discussed below.
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... Specific concerns of the committees about possible detrimental effects on an integrated research program from structuring science management along flight hardware development lines include the potential for the following: q Lack of attention to the supporting ground-based and theoretical research programs and poor integration of these programs into the flight program; q Lack of familiarity with the science community and the process of scientific investigation versus the engineering and system development process; q Weakened recognition that the research community does not divide cleanly, if at all, along flight experiment facility lines (e.g., there are not separate science communities for a centrifuge, cell culture system, human physiology equipment, and so on) ; q Inadequate resources devoted to, or distraction of management attention from, use of the space station for scientific research.
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... To ensure a broad and balanced research program, including theoretical and ground-based components, OLMSA should actively involve the microgravity and life sciences research communities.
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... Because plans for cooperative space science research efforts between the United States and the Russians have not yet been fully defined, the Board and its committees cannot explicitly address their potential effects on U.S. life and microgravity sciences research.
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... Holloway, Associate Administrator of the Office of Life and Microgravity Sciences and Applications, Joan Vernikos, Director, Division of Biomedical Sciences and Applications, and Robert Rhome, Director of the Microgravity Science and Applications Division, to a joint committee meeting of the Space Studies Board's Committee on Space Biology and Medicine and Committee on Microgravity Research, November 4, 1993. 2 Space Science Board Assessment of the Scientific Value of a Space Station and letter to NASA Administrator James Beggs, September 9, 1983; Space Studies Board Position on Proposed Redesign of Space Station Freedom Program, March 14, 1991; and Space Studies Board Assessment of the Space Station Freedom Program, March 30, 1992.
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... Use of Mir-Options, Advantages, and Disadvantages, presentation to the Committee on Space Biology and Medicine, May 14, 1992; Frank Sulzman, NASA Headquarters Update-U.S./USSR Cooperation, Status of Facilities, presentation to the Committee on Space Biology and Medicine, September 29, 1992; Joseph Alexander, NASA Headquarters, Potential U.S./USSR Cooperative Life Sciences Research Using Shuttle-Mir, January 27, 1993; Joan Vernikos, NASA Headquarters, Update on Planning for Shuttle-Mir Missions, April 29, 1993; and Joan Vernikos, NASA Headquarters, Optimizing the Scientific Benefits of the U.S./Russian Shuttle-Mir Program, November 5, 1993. Last update 8/29/00 at 10:44 am Site managed by Anne Simmons, Space Studies Board Site managed by the SSB Web Group.
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