NASA SEEKS NON-PROFIT GROUP TO MANAGE NATIONAL LABORATORY RESEARCH

NASA is looking for a non-profit group to manage International Space Station research that's being performed in orbit under its designation as an official U.S. National Laboratory. Completed proposals are due April 1, 2011.

NASA plans to sign a cooperative agreement this year with an independent, nonprofit research management organization to stimulate, develop and manage use of the station by a wide pool of U.S. research organizations for all National Laboratory experiments. NASA will continue to manage its own research aimed at space exploration advances. As space station assembly is completed this year, NASA and its international partners are transitioning to full use of the unique scientific outpost for research. In an effort to ensure broad access to the orbiting laboratory, Congress designated the station a national laboratory in 2005.

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