Dr. Frederick Best

Dr. Frederick Best, an associate professor at Texas A&M’s Department of Nuclear Engineering, has been invited by the National Academies (NAC) to participate in a two-year NASA study titled “Decadal Survey on Biological and Physical Sciences in Space.” The survey will establish a life and physical sciences research portfolio for NASA for the 2010-2020 decade. Best will serve on the Translation to Space Exploration Systems Panel.

According to NAC, this congressionally mandated study will help develop exploration capabilities and revitalize NASA’s research in biological and physical sciences.

The decadal survey will establish priorities and provide recommendations for life and physical sciences research to be conducted by NASA in microgravity and partial gravity over the next ten years. The survey will also suggest a timeline for the recommended research, identify facility and platform requirements, validate suggested programs, define dependencies between research objectives, identify terrestrial benefits and specify whether the research results will directly enable exploration or produce fundamental new knowledge.

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