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Exploration Science

JSC pioneers space exploration with diverse science capabilities including state-of-the-art human research labs, human-in-the-loop testing, mission analogs and extraterrestrial sample curation and research. Our experts evaluate human system interactions, optimize mission designs for astronaut health, use imagery to inform mission data, and operate science instruments. Discover the wide range of services and expertise we can offer by clicking below.

NASA astronaut and Expedition 67 Flight Engineer Bob Hines works inside the portable glovebag processing biological samples for the Food Physiology study. The human research experiment aims to define targeted, more efficient dietary interventions to maintain crew health and performance as well as the food system requirements to support these interventions.

Human Research & Analogs​

JSC offers a diverse array of capabilities spanning physical simulation, research laboratories, and human-in-the-loop testing to advance space exploration and astronaut health.

Human Factors & Performance​ 

JSC’s human factors and performance experts provide evaluation, testing and analysis for design of human system interactions including displays and controls, workstations, and vehicle and habitat environments. We seek insights into how to structure successful teams for space missions, as well as how to design missions so that human factors considerations are optimized.

Astromaterials Curation & Research​ 

With a rich history rooted in the Apollo era, JSC oversees the largest and most comprehensive collection of extraterrestrial samples globally. We have a state-of-the-art laboratory suite serving as a national resource for scientists across the globe.

Graphic depiction of how the gravity from a cluster of galaxies bends the path of light from a distant supernova. At the top of the graphic is a Hubble image of a field of galaxies on a black background of space. At the bottom of the illustration is an enlarged view of a galaxy from the top image. Both the Hubble image at the top of the illustration and the enlarged inset image at the bottom of the graphic have lines running through them from below the bottom left corner of the respective image extended past the top right corner of each image. The lines extend from a model of the Roman space telescope at the bottom left across each image to a distant galaxy at the top. On each image, the lines represent the light paths from distant supernova in the galaxy at the top right are bent by the cluster’s gravity and redirected onto new paths.

Image Science ​ 

Analysis of spaceflight imagery can quantify distances, sizes, motion and hardware conditions, all things not easily deduced from other sources of mission data.

Science Integration​ 

Our scientists are members of mission teams, constructing and operating spacecraft instruments and sensors as well as providing applied science services to missions. We provide scientific expertise in the definition of mission objectives, spacecraft designs, suit and tool designs and operating protocols.

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