An organization at Johnson Space Center, focusing on medical, health, biology, and biotechnology related aspects of manned spaceflight.
Mission Statement
"To optimize human health and productivity for space exploration."
All Space Life Sciences human health and countermeasures research, medical operations, habitability and environmental factors activities, and directorate support functions are ultimately aimed at achieving this mission. Our activities enable mission success, optimizing human health and productivity in space before, during, and after the actual space flight experience of our flight crews, and include support for ground-based functions.
Life Sciences Data Archive
Information and data from space flight experiments funded by NASA, from the Mercury Project in 1961 to current shuttle and station missions.
Critical Path Roadmap
A Risk Reduction Strategy for Human Space Exploration
Institutional Review Board
NASA's Institutional Review Board (IRB) for human research is the Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects (CPHS).
Documents with information on key aspects of Space Life Sciences within NASA
The Human System - Kathy Laurini - former Deputy Director, SLSD
How humans participate in spaceflight; the responses, risks, and countermeasures employed; and new system designs in response to research.
Countermeasures To Microgravity - Charles F. Sawin, PhD
Historical and future perspectives on countermeasures to the
microgravity environment.