# Presentation: 024272

## Biological and 

- Biological and
- Physical Research Enterprise

- Patricia Currier, Outreach Specialist
- Biological and Physical Research

- Space Science Education Dialog Meeting
- Goddard Space Flight Center
- April 7, 2004

## Agenda

**Who We Are**
- BPRE Organization and Themes
**What We Do**
- Research Summary
**How We Will Inspire the Next Generations of Explorers**
- Educational Outreach Overview, Goals, and Organization
**The Exploration Vision and Our Future**
- Reorganization of Research and Education
- Examples of Education Themes
**Conclusions**

## Vision and Mission

**Notes:**
In April [????] last year, I gave a speech at the Syracuse University that espoused a whole new Vision and Mission for NASA
As I asked my audience then, I ask you today to imagine knowing that we are not alone, but that life is abundant in our solar system and throughout the universe.  Imagine a world where we can safely travel anywhere, anytime, on our home planet, and in space.  Imagine a world in which longterm weather forecasts are highly accurate, and natural disasters are predictable and perhaps even preventable.  NASA is changing our understanding of the world, exploring the unknown, and creating new awareness about who we are and what our place is in the cosmos.  NASA can bring about these changes.
There are only 13 words in our Vision and 26 words in our Mission, but these words – every word – is the product of extensive senior leadership debate within NASA.  And what you see here is the product of those discussions from which all NASA’s leadership and the people of NASA are committed to delivering for the American people.
What I hold here before you [SHOW STRATEGIC PLAN] is the outcome and roadmap for those words.
In fact, we did not need to release this Plan today – law stipulates September and nearly all other Federal agencies will do it then – but we felt that if we are serious about our Vision and Mission, we must use it earlier during our budget deliberations and release it simultaneous with our budget.

## Organizing Questions

- Humans will extend the exploration of space.   To prepare for and hasten the journey, BPRE must answer these questions:
- How can we assure the survival of humans traveling far  from earth?
- How does life respond to gravity and space environments?
- What new opportunities can our research bring to expand our understanding of the laws of Nature and enrich lives on Earth?
- What technology must we create to enable the next explorers to go beyond where we have been?
- How can we educate and inspire the next generation to take the journey?

## Enterprise Research Themes 

- Biological Sciences Research Theme
- Investigates ways to support a safe human presence in space
- Addresses the definition and control of physiological and psychological risks from the space environment
- Supports development of human support systems technology
- Includes biological research spanning topics from genomics to ecologies
- Physical Sciences Research Theme
- Includes research that takes advantage of the space environment to expand our understanding of the fundamental laws of nature
- Supports applied physical sciences research to improve safety and performance of humans in space
- Research Partnerships and Flight Support Theme
- Establishes policies and allocates space resources to encourage and develop partnerships with academia and industry for space research
- Supports all themes through the development of multi-user ground and flight systems

## Office of Biological and Physical Research Organizational Chart

*Bonnie McClain, Chief*
*Educational Outreach*
*Headquarters*

*Dan Woodard*
*MSFC*

*Bonnie McClain, Chief*
*Educational Outreach*

*Tom Dreschel*
*KSC*

*Chuck Lloyd*
*JSC*

*Erin Patterson*
*MSFC*

## BPRE Education Strategy...

**Priorities Directed to Four Primary Audiences**
- Engage Students:  Increase numbers of students reached and interactivity of student opportunities
- Empower Educators: Enable educators to enhance STEM instruction with space research concepts
- Engage Audiences: Increase our reach to non-traditional and underrepresented students and educators
- Enhance Reach to Higher Ed: Review, improve, strengthen Higher Education BPRE E/O Programs
**Interwoven Standards**
- Align Program themes to the Agency’s Educational Operating Principles, Objectives, Outcomes, APG’s
- Map Research Theme E/O content/budget to BPRE E/O Road Map
- Establish maximizing partnerships and collaborations internal/external to NASA
- Apply and document metrics for formative, summative, and anecdotal evaluation
**Core Values**
- Authentic: Activities based upon current space research, tools, and technologies
- Linked: Use space research concepts that apply to standards-based curriculum
- Relevant: Provide linkages or interactions between educators, students, researchers, science, data, and facilities

## Results in Programs That...

- Meet Code N criteria
- Support Agency Education Enterprise initiatives
- Develop authentic, experiential classroom activities for grades 6-12; emphasis, 8-12
- Increase breadth of interdisciplinary science represented in activities
- Inclusion of schematics for educational hardware that simulates a ‘research lab environment”
- Create professional development seminar materials; emphasis high school educators
- Create materials appropriate for and with potential collaborations with Professional Education Associations
- Increase “Pipeline” efforts
- Use models based on educational “best practices”
- Contribute to achievement of BPRE Education 2-Year performance goals

## Biological and Physical Research Enterprise Educational Outreach

**Division of Programs and Policy Resources (UP)**
**Michael Abreu, Chief**

**Research Partnership Centers **
**E/O Program Manager**
**Erin Patterson**

** ****Lead,  Public**
** ****Outreach (HQ)**
**Vacant**

**Physical Sciences**
**E/O Program Manager**
**Dan Woodard**

**Bioastronautics**
**Research  **
**E/O Program Manager**
**Chuck Lloyd**

**Chief, Educational Outreach (HQ)**
**Bonnie McClain**

## Bioastronautics Research

**Education Outreach **
**Program Manager**
**Chuck Lloyd**

**Food **
**Technology****Commercial **
**Space**
**Center**

**Center for **
**Food & **
**Environmental **
**Systems**
**For Human **
**Exploration**
**Of Space**

**NSCORT for **
**Advanced Life **
**Support  **

** **

** ****Advanced Human Support Technology Program**

**Environmental Systems Commercial Space Technology**
**Center**

**Biomedical  Research & Countermeasures Program**

**National Space Biomedical Research Institute**

## Fundamental Space Biology Research

**     **

## Physical Sciences Research 

## Exploration and Research Emphasis

- Research areas of emphasis include:
- Human Health and Countermeasures Research – predominant areas of emphasis include:
- Radiation health effects
- Loss of bone density and muscle strength
- Behavioral health
- Trauma (injury and illness)
- Technology development – predominant areas of emphasis include:
- Real-time medical diagnosis and treatment
- Human habitability technologies
- Life support systems
- Environmental safety
- Nutrition
- Machine-human interfaces
- Research which supports the development of lower mass, lower volume, more efficient and reliable exploration systems
- We also recognize the need for:
- Maintaining a base of fundamental research to seed future endeavors
- Continuing to deliver and communicate Earth benefits

## Exploration and Educational Programs

- Adapting to Unique Environments (Human Health)
- Radiation health effects
- Behavior  health
- Loss of bone density and muscle strength
- Trauma (injury & illness)
- A Home in Space  (Technology Development)
- Medical diagnosis & treatment
- Human habitability technologies
- Life Support
- Environmental Monitoring &Safety
- Machine-human interfaces
- Exploration, Discovery, and YOU
- Earth benefits
- Partnerships
- The More You Know, The Farther You Can Go!
-   Foundational content

## Adapting to Unique EnvironmentsAltered Gravity

- Adapting to Unique Environments***Altered Gravity***

- Wireless Drop
- Tower

- NASA Explores

- Brassica and
- Butterflies

- Science @ NASA

- DIME Competition

- KC-135 Project

- KSNN

- Activity CD

- Teachers

- Students

- Public

- Hypergravity
-  Competition

- Microgravity:
- Fall into It

- Amusement Park
- Physics

- Barany Chair

- Saturday Morning
- Science

- How Space Affects
- Life Forms

## A Home in SpaceFood ‘N Fitness

- A Home in Space***Food ‘N Fitness***

- Activity Guides
- From Outerspace
- to Innerspace:
- Food and Fitness

- NASA Explores

- Mailing

- Science @ NASA

- Earth Crew Webcast

- NASA LIVE
- Grand Challenge

- Museum Event

- KSNN

- Activity CD

- NASA CONNECT Better Health from Space to Earth

- Teachers

- Students

- Public

- Pizza in Space

- Elder Hostels

- Space Nutrition
- Newsletter

## Adapting to New EnvironmentsCell Biology

- Adapting to New Environments***Cell Biology***

- Bioreactor

- NASA Explores

- Science @ NASA

- KSNN

- Underserved

- Students

- Teachers

- Hypergravity
-  Competition

- Higher Ed

- Public

- Research Symposia
-  and Workshops

- Grad Course
- Cellular Biotechnology

- SpaceBio.net

- Noticiencias NASA

- Undergrad Courses
- Cell/Space Biology

## Education in Practice

## Contact Information

*For more information regarding the work of  the Biological and Physical Research Enterprise  and access to the Enterprise Strategy,  please visit our Web site*
- _[http://spaceresearch.nasa.gov](http://spaceresearch.nasa.gov/)_

**Educational Outreach, NASA Headquarters**
- Bonnie McClain, Chief
- 202-358-2181
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- Patricia Currier, Outreach Specialist
- 202-358-2334
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- Frank Szofran, Researcher in Residence
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