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The Live from Space Station? Outreach Payload (LFSSOP) is a technologically challenging, exciting opportunity for university students to conduct significant research in the biological or physical sciences culminating in a university student built payload that is launched and placed on the International Space Station. Experiment features will be accessed and controlled by high school students via a ...

The objective of the proposed project is the development of technology for more efficient and effective human-computer supervision of complex systems. Systems that combine humans and automation in a synergistic or cooperative manner may be termed hybrid systems. Hybrid systems offer advantages over both purely automated systems and purely manual systems in many circumstances. However, future hybri ...

SHOT proposes an innovative microfluidic device designed to effect a 2-dimensional resolution of a mixture of proteins based on isoelectric point (pI) and molecular weight. A novel approach is proposed to achieve 2-D-gel equivalence. The first dimension is to be immobilized isoelectric focusing, and the second dimension will utilize an array of 100+ size-exclusion chromatography columns in micro ...

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THE PROPOSED RESEARCH IS DESIGNED TO UTILIZE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TECHNOLOGY FOR ASSISTING USERS LOCATING AND UNDERSTANDING TECHNICAL INFORMATION IN MANUALS USED FOR PLANNING AND CONDUCTING WIND TUNNEL TESTS AND INCREASING THEEFFICIENCY OF PERSONNEL TRAINING IN WIND TUNNEL TESTING PROCEDURES. THE OBJECTIVE IS TO CREATE A COMPUTERIZED MANUAL IN THE FORM OF HYPERTEXT AND AN ADVISORY SYSTEM WHICHS ...

EFFECTIVE PREDICTION OF GLOBAL PHENOMENA REQUIRES DETAILED KNOWLEDGE OF TEMPERATURES, RAINFALL RATES, AND PARTICLE SIZEDISTRIBUTIONS. IN PARTICULAR, KNOWLEDGE OF TROPICAL RAINFALL RATES IS IMPORTANT FOR UNDERSTANDING THE MAGNITUTE OF THE EFFECT OF TROPICAL LATENT HEATING ON GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION. SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS OF TROPICALPRECIPITATION PATTERNS HAVE BEEN PROPOSED USING SENSITIVE, ...

AN INNOVATIVE INSTRUMENTED ROCKET FOR MEASURING WIND PROFILES IN SUPPORT OF AEROSPACE VEHICLE OPERATIONS IS PROPOSED. IMMEDIATE APPLICATION IS TO NASA'S STS OPERATIONSALTHOUGH MANY OTHER APPLICATIONS CAN BE IDENTIFIED. TECHNIQUES FOR MEASURING STS LAUNCH WINDS CLOSE TO THE SCHEDULED LAUNCH TIME AND LAUNCH PATH WOULD REDUCE THE UNCERTAINITY MARGIN OF CALCULATED WIND LOADS, INCREASE LAUNCH PROBABILI ...

THE 20 KHZ POWER SYSTEMS, CURRENTLY BEING CONSIDERED FOR THE SPACE STATION AND ADVANCED SPACECRAFT, DEMONSTRATE HARMONIC RESONANCES DUE TO INTERACTION BETWEEN THE SWITCHINGOF THE CONVERTERS AND THE DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM. IN SOME CASES, THE HARMONIC RESONANCE BECOMES SO SEVERE THAT IT MAY CAUSE COMPONENT DAMAGE AND ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE. CONTROLLED SUPPRESSION OF THESE HARMONIC RESONANCE FREQU ...

THE PROPOSED PHASE I EFFORT IS AIMED AT A GENERAL AND BASIC NEED IN NASA'S FLIGHT HARDWARE FOR EXPERIMENTAL ANIMALS: TO DELIVER FOOD TO RODENTS IN SPACE IN A MANNER THAT PERMITS FOOD CONSUMPTION DATA TO BE ACCURATELY COLLECTED AND STORED. OUR APPROACH TO HARDWARE DESIGN IS INNOVATIVE. WE CONSIDER THE TEST ANIMALS TO BE PART OF THE DESIGN TEAM AND WE INCORPORATE ANIMAL TESTING THROUGHOUT CONCEPTUAL ...

AS NASA EXPANDS ITS SPACE CONSTRUCTION AND SATELLITE SERVICING ACTIVITIES, MACHINES THAT CAN PERFORM HUMAN MANIPULATION WITHOUT THE ACTUAL PRESENCE OF AN ASTRONAUT ARE BECOMING NECESSARY. ON EARTH, MANIPULATORS HAVE BEEN USED FOR YEARS TO ACCOMPLISH COMPLEX TASKS UNDER TELEOPERATORED CONTROL. TO PROVIDE ADVANCED MANIPULATION FOR SPACE, WE MUST MOVE FORWARD BY INCORPORATING THE HUMAN THOUGHT PROCES ...