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SLSTP 2000, CONTROLLED BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS GROUP, STUDENT RESEARCH PROJECTS SUPPORT NASA’S BIOREGENERATIVE LIFE SUPPORT PROGRAM.   D. Muhlestein¹, G. Koerner², ¹Crop Physiology Laboratory, Utah State University, ²Dynamac Corporation, Kennedy Space Center, FL. KSC Investigators: J. Adams, K. Corey, I. Eraso, P. Fowler, J. Garland, G. Goins, M. Hummerick, V. Kremins, H. Levine, O. Monje, M. Roberts, V. Rygalov, R. Strayer, L. Strejewski, G. Stutte, S. Young.  Students: J. Bamford, A. Brown, R. Marino, L. Martinez, J. Metz, C. Nash, E. Nunez, F. Perez, T. Tran, H. T. Wang.

Thirty undergraduate students participated in the sixteenth annual Spaceflight and Life Sciences Training Program (SLSTP) held at Kennedy Space Center. Ten students worked with NASA and contract scientists on experiments related to controlled biological systems (CBS). The CBS group encompasses plant gravitational and space biology, and aspects of advanced life support research, using bioregenerative systems. Experimentation by CBS students covered wide areas of the continuum necessary for successful plant based life support, including areas of plant physiological response, microbial ecology, resource recovery, and engineering systems for growing plants on extended missions in space.  In addition to lab activities students were exposed to seminars and tours encompassing all of the ongoing life science research at KSC and in other NASA and university programs. SLSTP is supported by NASA.