ASGSB 1998 Annual Meeting Abstracts

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THE FOURTEENTH ANNUAL SPACE LIFE SCIENCES TRAINING PROGRAM AT KENNEDY SPACE CENTER. T. W. Dreschel¹, P. Currier, G. Koerner¹, and C. B. Goodman². ¹The Dynamac Corporation, Life Science Support Contract, Kennedy Space Center, FL and ² Florida A&M University, College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tallahassee, FL.

The 1998 Space Life Sciences Training Program class was made up of forty students from across the United States. The students selected one of four research emphasis groups centered around projects related to: Ecological Programs; Flight Experiments and Occupational Medicine, Advanced Life Support research, and Gravitational Biology research. This year, the students spent more time during the six week program in the field or laboratory (about two-thirds of their time) with much of the rest of the time spent in lectures and tours. The lecturers included NASA personnel (including astronauts), NASA contractor personnel, and representatives from universities and other agencies. The students also utilized a local university library for literature searches and visited Epcot Center, Brevard Community College Astronaut Memorial Planetarium and Observatory, and Sea World. The students also took tours of Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral Space Museum, and U. S. Space Camp and the Astronaut Hall of Fame. The students earned five hours of college credit from Florida A & M University, who administers the program for NASA. To earn their grade, each student was required to submit and present a technical paper on their specific emphasis research project during the final week of the program. (Supported by the NASA Space Life Sciences Training Program)

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