| Abstract Scope |
The NASA Physical Sciences Informatics (PSI) database is NASA’s archival for physical sciences research in microgravity – on ISS and also other reduced gravity platforms. The database was an early investment in Open Science for NASA’s Biophysics and Physical Sciences (BPS) Division of the Science Mission Directorate (SMD), which conducts primarily fundamental, but some applied physical science yielding research data in 6 disciplines: biophysics, combustion science, complex fluids, fluid physics, fundamental physics, and materials science.
The database has been making data publicly available since 2014, starting initially with data from 14 microgravity investigations. Receipt of data through the years and an annual NRA to fund ground investigations extending flight datasets has increased the total investigations to 80 with at least 8 new datasets available to propose in the 2022 ROSES NRA for PSI, planned for release 9/15/2022. These new datasets are open for public access at the PSI (https://www.nasa.gov/PSI). |