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Planets are common.
A brine martini - shaken and stirred . . This document, prepared during 1998 and 1999 at NASA Ames Research Center, was developed by astrobiology community to help establish the framework for astrobiology research in the next century. This document contains a series of questions, objectives, and strategies for this evolving discipline. This May 1999 workshop at NASA Ames Research Center addressed the detection and study of habitable and inhabited worlds beyond our own solar system. This 1999 workshop at NASA Ames Research Center focused on basic space biology research on board the ISS with a particular emphasis on genomics studies - the effects of microgravity on gene expression and the use of microgravity as a tool to understand gene function.