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Why Do We Explore?
From the time of our birth, humans have felt a primordial urge to explore -- to blaze new trails, map new lands, and answer profound questions about ourselves and our universe.
Human Research at NASA Overview
The Human Research Program is headquartered and administered at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Many program-related studies and engineering projects are conducted in collaboration with research teams at other facilities and institutions. Use the links below to find out about these research facilities and to discover more about the types of experiments that are conducted at each site.
Human Research at NASA
Ames Research Center
Glenn Research Center
The human research conducted at the Glenn Research Center focuses on exercise, physiology, exploration medical capability, and other related issues.
Johnson Space Center
Located on a 1,620-acre campus in Houston, Texas, the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center is the hub of NASA’s human spaceflight research and oversight activities and is the primary site of the Human ...
Kennedy Space Center
The Baseline Data Collection Facility (BDCF) is a laboratory with specialized equipment that allows scientists to collect biomedical data from crewmembers before, during, and after space flight.
Langley Research Center
Langley research personnel continue to contribute to several Human Research Program projects, including efforts to measure and mediate space radiation.
National Space Biomedical Research Institute
A particular focus of NSBRI research is the design of systems and technologies that will help crewmembers self-administer medical care in space.
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