Summary 



• Augment life sciences research programs to establish the base of scientific 

 knowledge required by planners and engineers to conduct missions relevant 

 to Agency goals. 



• Provide adequate funding to develop new state-of-the-art flight hardware for 

 upcoming manned and unmanned life sciences missions in space. 



• Initiate advanced technology development in the areas of minimally invasive 

 biomedical instrumentation, biological remote sensing, exobiological flight 

 instrumentation, and microwave signal processing. 



• Increase the frequency of life sciences data acquisition on the Space Shuttle 

 and international missions. 



• Conduct a study to determine the requirements for extravehicular activity 

 (EVA) for the next 20 years, to delineate innovative options, and to identify 

 needed technologies. 



1989-1994 



• Operate reusable biosatellites to obtain environmental, radiation, and artificial 

 variable-gravity data on plants and animals. 



• Achieve ground-based validation of major physiological and psychological 

 countermeasures for long-duration missions. 



• Conduct ground-based research on bioregenerative life support systems to 

 achieve 90-percent closure. 



• Initiate the Microwave Observing Project of the Search for Extraterrestrial 

 Intelligence (SETI) Program. 



1989-2004 



• Establish a combined national and international life sciences research facility 

 on the Space Station. This facility must support basic research on plants, 

 animals, and humans necessary to develop an understanding of the 

 fundamental biological processes affected by gravitational forces. 



• Develop an advanced biomedical research facility in space to investigate and 

 verify technologies and medical support necessary to enable the planning and 

 implementation of human exploration of the solar system. 



• Develop and test in space a fully operational bioregenerative life support 

 system(s) for future use in solar system exploration. 



• Conduct cooperative missions with other national and international 

 organizations to study the behavior of the biosphere and the origin, 

 evolution, and distribution of life on Earth and in space. 



strategic milestones emphasize the importance ol international cooperation in 

 space life sciences research and missions. The LSSPSC believes that considerable 

 ''nefit can be derived from expanding such efforts. Increased interaction 

 with e U.S.S.R. could be particularly valuable because ol their more extensive 

 expei i. with humans in space for prolonged periods. 



