UF Distinguished Professor Leads National Academies Panel on Future of Space Research

Rob Ferl has spent his career working with NASA to understand what happens to Earth’s living organisms on the journey to space, so it has been particularly gratifying for him to co-chair a National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine committee that is charting the course for the next 10 years of biological and physical sciences research in space.

That committee — the Decadal Survey on Biological and Physical Sciences Research in Space 2023-2032 — released its report Tuesday in Washington, calling on NASA to increase its investment in biological and physical sciences research tenfold over the next decade to prepare for more and longer space missions.

Their final publication, Thriving in Space, is a 350-page analysis of where biological and physical sciences research needs to go in the next decade.

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