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JSC Advanced Curation: Research and Development for Current Collections and Future Sample Return Mission DemandsCuration of NASA's astromaterials sample collections is a demanding and evolving activity that supports valuable science from NASA missions for generations, long after the samples are returned to Earth. For example, NASA continues to loan hundreds of Apollo program samples to investigators every year and those samples are often analyzed using instruments that did not exist at the time of the Apollo missions themselves. The samples are curated in a manner that minimizes overall contamination, enabling clean, new high-sensitivity measurements and new science results over 40 years after their return to Earth. As our exploration of the Solar System progresses, upcoming and future NASA sample return missions will return new samples with stringent contamination control, sample environmental control, and Planetary Protection requirements. Therefore, an essential element of a healthy astromaterials curation program is a research and development (R&D) effort that characterizes and employs new technologies to maintain current collections and enable new missions - an Advanced Curation effort. JSC's Astromaterials Acquisition & Curation Office is continually performing Advanced Curation research, identifying and defining knowledge gaps about research, development, and validation/verification topics that are critical to support current and future NASA astromaterials sample collections. The following are highlighted knowledge gaps and research opportunities.

Document ID
20150001928
Acquisition Source
Johnson Space Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Fries, M. D.
(NASA Johnson Space Center Houston, TX, United States)
Allen, C. C.
(NASA Johnson Space Center Houston, TX, United States)
Calaway, M. J.
(Jacobs Technology, Inc. Houston, TX, United States)
Evans, C. A.
(NASA Johnson Space Center Houston, TX, United States)
Stansbery, E. K.
(NASA Johnson Space Center Houston, TX, United States)
Date Acquired
February 23, 2015
Publication Date
March 16, 2015
Subject Category
Lunar And Planetary Science And Exploration
Report/Patent Number
JSC-CN-32794
Meeting Information
Meeting: Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
Location: The Woodlands, TX
Country: United States
Start Date: March 16, 2015
End Date: March 20, 2015
Sponsors: Lunar and Planetary Inst., Universities Space Research Association
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Public Use Permitted.
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