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ESMD Education. Presentation to Space Grant Directors March 2007 Jerry Hartman Exploration Systems Mission Directorate Education Lead. ESMD Goals and Priorities FY 2007. Build on current lunar architecture to Develop global view Coordinate plans among international and commercial partners

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  1. ESMD Education Presentation to Space Grant Directors March 2007 Jerry Hartman Exploration Systems Mission Directorate Education Lead

  2. ESMD Goals and Priorities FY 2007 • Build on current lunar architecture to • Develop global view • Coordinate plans among international and commercial partners • Update and baseline ESMD requirements • Develop Mars Reference Mission • Continue to engage academia, private sector and other stakeholders in defining a sustainable program of lunar exploration • Constellation 2007 Major Highlights • Orion • Systems Requirements Review Mar 07 • Systems Design Review Aug 07 • Ares • Upper stage production contract award Aug 07 • Begin process of developing requirements for • Ground Systems • Mission Systems • Extravehicular Systems

  3. ESMD-Funded Research • National Space Biomedical Research Institute • A consortium of 12 universities performing targeted research on space biology and medicine, such as • Bone loss • Cardiology • Muscle • Sleep • Psychological issues Contact NSBRI directly at http://www.nsbri.org/Education/LearningOpportunities.html • Brookhaven National Laboratory NASA Space Radiation Summer School (NSRSS) trains graduate students and young investigators from the fields of molecular biology and genetics to pursue research careers in space radiobiology, and aid established investigators. Contact BNL directly at http://www.bnl.gov/education/students.asp • University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston offers graduate classes in Space Medicine and Physiology

  4. ESMD-Funded Research • Advanced Capabilities Division – performs research on human biology and advanced technologies (lead center: JSC) • Human research focuses on understanding the space frontier and the opportunities, capabilities, and limitations of humans living and working on that frontier. To accomplish the mission, ESMD manages and implements a broad range of applied and basic scientific research. This research is accomplished using ground-based laboratories, microgravity environments, and space-analog facilities. ESMD is responsible for both the scientific content and the associated hardware systems. The organizational structure focuses on the disciplines of Bioastronautics, Astromaterials, and Biological Sciences.

  5. ESMD-Funded Research • Technology development (lead center: LaRC) Exploration Systems Research & Technology steers some of the world's boldest engineers and innovators to create revolutionary system concepts, architectures, engineering tools, communications networks, and break-through technology necessary to empower humans and robots to explore, inhabit, and study destinations in space beyond low Earth orbit and beyond our Solar System. • Both human and robotic exploration technology fill critical roles in the U.S. Exploration Vision. The Exploration Systems Research & Technology programs provide the advanced research and development which will overcome key challenges and lay the foundations in these technologies for Constellation Systems, the spaceflight system development program, to construct safe and efficient space transport vehicles and long-term human habitats and laboratories on the Moon and Mars. At the same time, they will provide key technologies of broad common value across the space program.

  6. ESMD Education Supports NASA Education Outcomes

  7. ESMD Education Priorities • Grow Engineers • Grow Engineers • Grow Scientists

  8. ESMD K-12 Education Activities • Engineering Design Challenges • Fall 2007 Plant Habitat supports STS-118 • Fall 2008 Lunar Exploration supports LRO • Human Exploration Project • ITEA modules on energy, transportation, communication • Fundamentals of Lunar Robotics • Content to be integrated into aerospace modules of PLTW • Advanced Placement Extensions • Algebra One • Space Radiation • Fit Explorer • Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)

  9. ESMD Informal Education Activities • Field Trip to the Moon • Girl Scouts Exploring Space • Lunar Librarian Workshops • Lunarnautics

  10. ESMD Higher Ed Activities • Constellation University Institutes • GSRP • phasing out ESMD support • will fund current grantees through the end of commitment will not fund new awards in FY 2007 • NASA Postdoctoral Program • phasing out ESMD support • will fund current grantees through end of commitment • will not fund new awards in FY 2007 • Spaceward Bound • Bi-Generational Research • Space Grant Internships • Space Grant Faculty Fellows

  11. For More Information Jerry Hartman ESMD Education Lead 202-358-1451 jerry.g.hartman(at)nasa.gov NASA HQ Attn: Jerry Hartman Mail Suite 2U75 300 E St., S.W. Washington, DC 20546-0001

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