Background on the Committee 



CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY • CLEVELAND. OHIO 4410G 





Dear 



As you may know, NASA is now developing wide-ranging plans covering its 

 space activities for the rest of the 20th century and the early part of 

 the 21st. The programs that are under consideration present dramatic new 

 possibilities for research in space and may require extensive new knowledge 

 about human capacity to adapt to the space flight environment. 



To assist in planning these future programs, NASA has organized a Life 

 Sciences Strategic Planning Study Committee (LSSPSC). The Committee's 

 mission is to recommend major goals for the Agency's activities in the 

 life sciences and to lay out approaches for the attainment of these goals. 

 The Committee is of the opinion that it is very important in order to prepare 

 a more meaningful report that the points of view of those conducting space 

 related research and the various relevant organizations be solicited. 



As chairman of the LSSPSC, I am writing to make you aware of the Committee's 

 undertaking and to solicit your views on the space program's past and future 

 involvement with the life sciences. Specifically, any suggestions for 

 both ongoing and proposed research and development work in the life sciences 

 that you believe should be supported by NASA during the coming decade will 

 be welcome and will receive careful consideration in formulating the 

 Committee's recommendations. Also, any opinions on how NASA might improve 

 communications with the scientific community concerning its programs and 

 objectives in the medical, biological, and behavioral sciences, and any 

 suggestions you might have for improving contracting/granting procedures 

 would be useful to the Committee in meeting its charge. 



Cleveland Study of the Elderly 

 Department of Epidemiology 



and Bioslatislics 

 School of Medicine 

 Area Code: 216 Telephone 368-3760 



Figure 5. The External Relations Study Group circulated a form letter to researchers 

 and administrators in the life sciences to collect information for the LSSPSC 

 report. 



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