NASA Human Research Program (HRP) Research Opportunities in Space Biology (ROSBio)

NASA Human Research Program (HRP) Research Opportunities in Space Biology (ROSBio) is sponsored by NASA Human Research Program. Supports research to understand the effects of spaceflight on human health and performance, focusing on space biology.

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With the goal of traveling to Mars and beyond, HRP is using ground research facilities, the International Space Station, and analog environments to enable cutting-edge science. HRP offers funding, collaboration, and partnership opportunities to those interested in the future of human spaceflight.

Learn More About How to Get Involved With HRP A crew inside NASA’s Human Exploration Research Analog looks up from the habitat’s ladder well for a team photo. Join Us at the 2027 Investigators’ Workshop Hear from scientists and investigators as they pursue cutting-edge and cross-disciplinary methods to ensure safe, productive, and efficient human spaceflight. Submit your abstracts by Sept.

1, 2026. Registration will open in mid-August. Learn More About the Investigators’ Workshop Watch: Learn More About HRP!

NASA’s Human Research Program, which develops methods to protect the health and performance of astronauts in space, uses ground-based research facilities, the International Space Station, and analog environments to enable cutting-edge science. NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara helps explain why the program matters. Credit: (NASA) Ongoing HRP Research in Space Explore ongoing human health investigations performed in low Earth orbit.

Learn More About Human Spaceflight Studies NASA astronaut Scott Kelly floating during a spacewalk. Human Research Program Elements Human Factors and Behavioral Performance Characterizes and mitigates behavioral health and performance for future missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. Human Health Countermeasures Assesses the effects spaceflight has on the human body and develops safeguards to deal with those changes.

Ensures that crewmembers can safely live and work in space without exceeding acceptable radiation health risks. Research Operations and Integration Plans, integrates, and implements services for HRP research in Earth-based simulations, the International Space Station, and other platforms. For more than 50 years, NASA’s Human Research Program (HRP) has studied what happens to the human body in space.

Researchers… NASA's Databases for Life Sciences HRP invests in diverse projects that include animal, cell, plant, and human research data that are archived in NASA Life Science Databases. The NASA Life Sciences Portal provides access to human research data from spaceflight and ground-analog studies dating back to 1961.

Explore Human Research Data NASA's Open Science Data Repository provides access to human cellular and non-human life science data. Explore Plant and Animal Data The Lifetime Surveillance of Astronaut Health program uses medical monitoring data for astronaut health surveillance. Explore Human Medical Data Learn more about what it takes to prepare humans for the next generation of exploration to the Moon, Mars, and beyond.

Learn More About Living in Space HRP-Funded Science Highlights Read highlights of journal articles published by HRP scientists and collaborators spanning Fiscal Year 2024. Explore research on vision correction, radiation exposure, heart health, and more! Learn More About HRP Studies Published in FY2024 5 Hazards of Human Spaceflight Astronauts encounter five hazards as they journey through space.

Recognizing these hazards allows NASA to seek ways that overcome the challenges of sending humans to the space station, the Moon, Mars, and beyond. Discover the 5 Hazards of Human Spaceflight Risks of Human Spaceflight HRP seeks to understand specific risks associated with the five hazards of human spaceflight. The effects of these risks vary depending on whether humans are traveling to low Earth orbit, the Moon, or Mars.

Learn More About Each Identified Risk Browse videos explaining the science of NASA’s Human Research Program (HRP). Browse HRP Videos about HRP Videos Through a collaboration with NASA, the Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH) funds scientific studies and technologies to help keep astronauts safe and healthy on deep space missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. David K.

Baumann, Director Baumann oversees HRP, a program responsible for ensuring the health and performance of crew members aboard spaceflight exploration missions. He previously served as the chief health and performance officer for the Human Landing System Program. David Baumann's Biography Michael Stenger, Chief Scientist Stenger guides scientific content for HRP.

As the program’s chief scientist, he ensures scientific integrity, ethics, and quality. Michael Stenger's Biography Karen D. Pickering, Deputy Director Pickering supports the strategic management of HRP, aligning science goals with NASA objectives.

She also facilitates relationships with internal and external partners. Karen Pickering's Biography Steven H. Platts, Senior Program Scientist Platts is currently leading a comprehensive review of all biomedical research conducted aboard the International Space Station.

Steven Platts's Biography Baraquiel Reyna, Manager of the Science Integration Office Reyna incorporates research into NASA’s operational programs to ensure that research goals set now develop into research actions in the future. Baraquiel Reyna's Biography Carol Mullenax, Manager of the Program Planning and Control Office Mullenax leads the team that enables HRP’s overall execution.

She facilitates technical, cost, schedule, and programmatic risk management processes and more. Carol Mullenax's Biography Jancy C. McPhee, International and Commercial Strategist McPhee helps build science strategies and implement research goals, coordinating with government, international, and commercial partners across various physiological disciplines, space missions, and Earth-based simulations of life in space.

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