Exploring the Living Universe: A Strategy for Space Life Sciences : a Report of the NASA Life Sciences Strategic Planning Study CommitteeNational Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1988 - 217 páginas |
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Página 125 - To gain a scientific understanding of how human activities will affect the Earth's environment requires a new approach to Earth sciences. We need to obtain a scientific understanding of the entire Earth system on a global scale by describing how its component parts and their interactions have evolved, how they function, and how they may be expected to continue to change on all time scales.
Página 125 - The scientific community believes that we need to obtain a scientific understanding of the entire earth system on a global scale by describing how its component parts and their interactions have evolved, how they function, and how they may be expected to continue to change on all time scales.
Página 206 - Cardiovascular Deconditioning During Space Flight and the Use of Saline as a Countermeasure to Orthostatic Intolerance," Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine, Vol.
Página 150 - The development and operation of vehicles capable of carrying instruments, equipment, supplies, and living organisms through space...
Página 195 - Department of Earth and Space Sciences, State University of New York at Stony Brook...
Página 201 - Comments From the National Aeronautics and Space Administration National Aeronautics and Space Administration Office of the Administrator Washington. DC 20546-0001 Mr.
Página 97 - Program is concerned with using the characteristics of the space environment, particularly microgravity, as a tool to advance knowledge in the biological sciences; understanding how gravity has shaped and affected life on earth; and understanding how the space environment affects both plant and animal species. The summaries for each project include a description of the research, a list of...
Página 3 - NASA supported professorships in space life sciences at selected universities Encouraging industries to develop capabilities in space life sciences through technology research and development. • Assure timely and sustained access to space flight, thereby facilitating the conduct of critical life sciences experiments. This should be accomplished through: Accumulating state-of-the-art instrumentation Flying an augmented series of Spacelab missions Using a series of autonomous bioplatforms to study...
Página 98 - Particularly needed are long-duration studies of the reactions of humans and plants to the microgravity of free space, the one-sixth gravity of the Moon, and the one-third gravity of Mars.