The NASA Space Biology Program, through this program element, is soliciting proposals for biological research experiments with invertebrates to be conducted on the Artemis II mission. The goal of these projects will be to study early changes in physiological systems due to exposure to the deep space environment. To be responsive to this announcement, proposed research must involve only one of the following model organisms targeted in this call: Drosophila melanogaster (fruit flies) or Caenorhabditis elegans (nematodes).
Selection of projects for this opportunity is contingent on the updated mission plan and whether the Artemis II mission is able to accommodate the program’s biological payloads; therefore, all proposed research must fit within the hardware constraints described within this document (e.g., see Section 2.1). The mass, volume, and crew time allotments/constraints described in this program element are based on current Orion Integration Team estimates; however, they are subject to change before the mission launch date. The Space Biology Program reserves the right to 1) modify a selected project if necessary to fit reductions to these allotments, 2) deselect a project if it is found to be incompatible with future changes of allotments or constraints, or 3) select no projects from this opportunity if none are found to be compatible with any updated allotments or constraints.
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