ESMD Education

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ESMD Education

• Presentation to Space Grant Directors
• March 2007
• Jerry Hartman
• Exploration Systems Mission Directorate
• Education Lead

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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

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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/Edu
  cation/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/educat
  ion/students.asp
• University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston
  offers graduate classes in Space Medicine and
  Physiology

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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.

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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.

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ESMD Education Supports NASA Education Outcomes
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ESMD Education Priorities

• Grow Engineers
• Grow Engineers
• Grow Scientists

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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)

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ESMD Informal Education Activities

• Field Trip to the Moon
• Girl Scouts Exploring Space
• Lunar Librarian Workshops
• Lunarnautics

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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

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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