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directorate organization that pursues outstanding science and understands its potential application to future exploration missions.</p></div></div></div><div class="BlockLayout margin-y-3"><div class="BlockWrapper hds-module width-full maxw-full CoreParagraphBlock" data-template-part="primary-column"><div class="grid-container-block grid-container padding-0"><p class="margin-0 padding-0">The vision for BPS, in keeping with the <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/nasa_2018_strategic_plan.pdf">NASA Strategic P</a><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/nasa_2018_strategic_plan.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">lan</a> and <a href="https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/decadal-survey-on-life-and-physical-sciences-research-in-space-2023-2032" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Decadal Survey</a>, is: We lead the space life and physical sciences research community to enable space exploration and benefit life on Earth.</p></div></div></div><div class="BlockLayout margin-y-3"><div class="BlockWrapper hds-module width-full maxw-full CoreParagraphBlock" data-template-part="primary-column"><div class="grid-container-block grid-container padding-0"><p class="margin-0 padding-0">The mission of BPS is two-pronged:</p></div></div></div><div class="BlockLayout margin-full-bleed"><div class="BlockWrapper hds-module width-full maxw-full CoreListBlock" data-template-part="primary-column"><div class="grid-container-block grid-container padding-y-0"><ul><li><span>Pioneer scientific discovery in and beyond low Earth orbit to drive advances in science, technology, and space exploration to enhance knowledge, education, innovation, and economic vitality </span></li><li><span>Enable human spaceflight exploration to expand the frontiers of knowledge, capability, and opportunity in space </span></li></ul></div></div></div><div class="BlockLayout margin-y-3"><div class="BlockWrapper hds-module width-full maxw-full 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BlockLayoutGeneric grid-row grid-container grid-container-block smd-padding-x-responsive margin-y-3"><div class="grid-col-12 desktop:grid-col-6 desktop:grid-offset-1"><div class="BlockWrapper hds-module width-full maxw-full CoreParagraphBlock"><div class="grid-container-block grid-container padding-0"><p class="margin-0 padding-0">BPS administers NASA’s:</p></div></div></div></div><div class="BlockLayout BlockLayoutGeneric grid-row grid-container grid-container-block smd-padding-x-responsive margin-y-3"><div class="grid-col-12 desktop:grid-col-6 desktop:grid-offset-1"><div class="BlockWrapper hds-module width-full maxw-full CoreListBlock"><div class="grid-container-block grid-container padding-y-0"><ul><li><span><strong><a href="https://science.nasa.gov/biological-physical/programs/space-biology/">Space Biology Progra</a><a href="https://science.nasa.gov/biological-physical/programs/space-biology/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">m</a></strong>, which solicits and conducts research to use the space environment to advance our knowledge of how gravity affects the design and function of living organisms, and to understand how biological systems accommodate to spaceflight environments.</span></li><li><span><strong><a href="https://science.nasa.gov/biological-physical/programs/physical-sciences/">Physical Sciences Progra</a><a href="https://science.nasa.gov/biological-physical/programs/physical-sciences/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">m</a></strong>, which solicits and conducts research using the space environment as a tool to provide transformational insights in physics and engineering science, and to understand how physical systems respond to spaceflight environments, particularly weightlessness and the partial gravity of planetary bodies.</span></li><li><span><a href="https://science.nasa.gov/biological-physical/commercial/"><strong>Commercially Enabled Rapid Space Science project (CERISS</strong></a><strong><a href="https://science.nasa.gov/biological-physical/commercial/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">)</a></strong>, which will develop transformative research capabilities with commercial space industry to dramatically increase the pace of research. </span></li></ul></div></div></div></div><div class="BlockLayout BlockLayoutGeneric grid-row grid-container grid-container-block smd-padding-x-responsive margin-y-3"><div class="grid-col-12 desktop:grid-col-6 desktop:grid-offset-1"><div class="BlockWrapper hds-module width-full maxw-full CoreParagraphBlock"><div class="grid-container-block grid-container padding-0"><p class="margin-0 padding-0">BPS partners with the research community and a wide range of organizations to accomplish its mission. Grants to academic, commercial, and government laboratories are the core of BPS’s research and technology development efforts. All BPS solicitations are issued through <a href="https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NSPIRES</a> and all awards are described and results tracked in the  <a href="https://taskbook.nasaprs.com/Publication/index.cfm" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Task Book: Biological and Physical Sciences Division and Human Research Program</a>. Partnerships with other NASA organizations, other government agencies, industry and international partners provide access to a broad range of experimental platforms, involvement of a diverse set of experts, and translation of results to a wide community.</p></div></div></div></div><div class="BlockLayout BlockLayoutGeneric grid-row grid-container grid-container-block smd-padding-x-responsive margin-y-3"><div class="grid-col-12 desktop:grid-col-6 desktop:grid-offset-1"><div class="BlockWrapper hds-module width-full maxw-full CoreParagraphBlock"><div class="grid-container-block grid-container padding-0"><p class="margin-0 padding-0">BPS research and technology development is conducted on a wide range of experimental platforms including ground-based analogs for spaceflight, drop towers and aircraft that provide seconds of weightlessness, to free-flyer satellites. The <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">I</a><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html">nternational Space Station (ISS)</a> is a critically important United States facility that provides researchers the ability to conduct long-duration experiments in low Earth orbit. ISS allows continuous and interactive research similar to Earth-based laboratories, enabling scientists to pursue innovations and discoveries not currently achievable by other means. BPS is also planning research and technology development to enable human spaceflight and scientific discovery beyond low Earth orbit.</p></div></div></div></div><div class="BlockLayout BlockLayoutGeneric grid-row grid-container grid-container-block smd-padding-x-responsive margin-y-3"><div class="grid-col-12 desktop:grid-col-6 desktop:grid-offset-1"><div class="BlockWrapper hds-module width-full maxw-full CoreParagraphBlock"><div class="grid-container-block grid-container padding-0"><p class="margin-0 padding-0">BPS strives for broad involvement of the research and technology development communities in the formulation and dissemination of its work. BPS typically solicits for teams of investigators for spaceflight investigations to maximize the scientific benefit derived from the experiments. BPS also emphasizes the importance of archiving data, metadata, computational tools, and samples after spaceflight experiments to enable future experiments. The <a href="https://osdr.nasa.gov/bio/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NASA Open Science Data Repository</a> (which combines both GeneLab and the Ames Life Sciences Data Archive) and the <a href="https://science.nasa.gov/physical-sciences-informatics-psi" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Physical Sciences Informatics</a> database are the principal repositories.</p></div></div></div></div><div class="BlockLayout margin-full-bleed"><div class="BlockWrapper hds-module hds-tabbed-section color-mode-light padding-y-6 padding-x-3 wp-block-nasa-blocks-tabbed-section NasaBlocksTabbedSectionBlock"><div class="grid-container grid-container-block"><ul class="hds-tab-nav usa-list usa-list--unstyled grid-row" role="tablist"><li role="presentation" class="usa-active hds-tab-nav-item" data-tab-id="0"><button id="tab-0-what-we-study" role="tab" type="button" aria-selected="true" aria-controls="panel-0-what-we-study"><span>What We Study</span></button></li><li role="presentation" class="hds-tab-nav-item" data-tab-id="1"><button id="tab-1-investigations" role="tab" type="button" aria-selected="false" aria-controls="panel-1-investigations"><span>Investigations</span></button></li></ul><div class="hds-tabbed-section-tabs margin-top-6"><div id="panel-0-what-we-study" class="usa-active hds-tabbed-section-tab desktop:display-flex" data-tab-id="0" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="tab-0-what-we-study"><div class="grid-col desktop:padding-right-5 padding-bottom-4 desktop:padding-bottom-0"><div class="margin-bottom-2"><h2 class="heading-29 margin-0">What We Study</h2></div><p class="p-md"><strong>Space Biology Overview</strong><br>The main objective of Space Biology research is to build a better understanding of how spaceflight affects living systems in spacecraft such as the International Space Station (ISS), or in ground-based experiments, and to prepare for future human exploration missions far from Earth.<br><br><strong>Physical Sciences Overview</strong><br>The Physical Science Research Program makes contributions in two distinct areas: fundamental research, which investigates physical phenomena in the absence of gravity and fundamental laws of the universe, and second, applied research, which contributes to the basic understanding underlying space exploration technologies.</p><a href="/biological-physical/programs/" class="link-external-false BaseButton button-primary link-external-0 display-inline-block button-primary-md"><span class="display-flex flex-row flex-align-center width-auto"><span class="line-height-alt-1 width-auto" style="white-space:pre-wrap;min-width:1px;"><span class="line-height-alt-1">Read More</span></span><svg viewBox="0 0 34 32" fill="none" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><circle class="button-primary-circle" cx="16" cy="16" r="16"></circle><path d="M8 16.956h12.604l-3.844 4.106 1.252 1.338L24 16l-5.988-6.4-1.252 1.338 3.844 4.106H8v1.912z" class="color-spacesuit-white"></path></svg></span></a></div><div 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https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Final-Comp10-jpg.webp?w=2560&format=png&crop=1 2560w, https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Final-Comp10-jpg.webp?w=3072&format=png&crop=1 3072w, https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Final-Comp10-jpg.webp?w=4096&format=png&crop=1 4096w"></picture></figure></div></div></div></div></div><div id="panel-1-investigations" class="hds-tabbed-section-tab desktop:display-flex" data-tab-id="0" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="tab-1-investigations"><div class="grid-col desktop:padding-right-5 padding-bottom-4 desktop:padding-bottom-0"><div class="margin-bottom-2"><h2 class="heading-29 margin-0">Investigations</h2></div><p class="heading-16">Current Investigations</p><p class="p-md">Studying biological and physical phenomena in extreme environments enables researchers to pursue innovations and discoveries in ways not possible on Earth. </p><a href="/biological-physical/investigations/" class="link-external-false 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