News Item for 10 Aug 2009 at 3:05 PM
| MME Professor Nominated to NRC Panel |
| Date: 10 Aug 2009 |
| Time: 3:05 PM |
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MME Professor Mark Weislogel was recently nominated to serve on the National Research Council Space Studies Board for the Decadal Survey in Life and Physical Sciences Space Research. As dictated by the NRC "...NASA intends to conduct a series of robotic and crewed exploration missions over the next decades. These include missions to the International Space Station and other missions to low Earth orbit and missions to the Moon. These missions will involve a combination of factors such as reduced gravity level, radiation, life support and extended-duration confinement. In addition, these missions present multi-disciplinary scientific and engineering challenges and opportunities that are both fundamental and applied in nature. Meeting these scientific challenges will require an understanding of biological and physical sciences and their intersections in partial and microgravity environments. Recently, Congress provided additional direction regarding life and microgravity research by stating: “Achieving the goals of the Exploration Initiative will require a greater understanding of life and physical sciences phenomena in microgravity as well as in the partial gravity environments of the Moon and Mars. Therefore, the Administrator is directed to enter into an arrangement with the National Research Council to conduct a “decadal survey” of life and physical sciences research in microgravity and partial gravity to establish priorities for research for the 2010-2020 decade.” The National Research Council will organize a decadal survey to establish priorities and provide recommendations for life and physical sciences research in microgravity and partial gravity for the 2010-2020 decade. The committee will develop criteria for the prioritization."
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