Use of the NASA Physical Sciences Informatics System - Appendix F

This National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Research Announcement (NRA) solicits ground-based research proposals from established researchers and graduate students to generate new scientific insights by utilizing experimental data residing in NASA’s Physical Sciences Informatics (PSI) system. The solicitation will be available on or about September 16, 2019, and proposals are due on or about December 16, 2019. The PSI system is an online, publicly accessible database of completed physical science reduced-gravity flight experiments conducted on the International Space Station, Space Shuttle flights, Free Flyers, or commercial cargo flights to and from the ISS, and related ground-based studies. • The NRA solicits proposals in the following five research areas: Combustion Science, Complex Fluids, Fluid Physics, Fundamental Physics, and Materials Science. • Proposals must show a clear path from the scientific data obtained from the PSI system to the proposed investigation. • The project must address an important problem in the proposed area of research and advance scientific knowledge or technology. • Proposals from graduate students must be submitted by their advisor. • Principal Investigators (PIs) may collaborate with investigators from universities, Federal Government laboratories, the private sector, state and local government laboratories, and other countries.