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Navigation from
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- Introduction |
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- Enter the Roadmap |
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- Baseline Document |
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Navigating the
Roadmap |
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- Navigational Tabs |
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- Current
Selection Filters |
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- Search |
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Printable Views/Documents |
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Supported Browsers |
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Contact Us |
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Search Tips |
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Navigation from the Homepage |
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General navigation is had through
entry into the website via three distinct information access tabs located on
the center of the BR homepage. Users may select
Introduction,
Enter the Roadmap, or
Baseline Document to access these information centers. |
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Introduction |
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This link from the BR homepage
provides a user access to background on the BR program, a discussion of
the BR objectives and a short description of each of the BR components
(Crosscutting Areas, Missions, Disciplines, Risks, Research & Technology Questions and Tasks). New
users are encouraged to spend a moment reviewing this information prior to
navigating the website. |
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Enter the Roadmap |
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This link from the BR homepage
provides a user with a direct link into the Bioastronautics Roadmap (BR). |
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Baseline Document |
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This link provides a user link to the
PDF document, Bioastronautics Roadmap (BR), A Risk Reduction Strategy for Human Space Exploration.
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Navigating the Roadmap |
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Upon selecting Enter
the Roadmap, Users arrive at the opening web page entitled,
Risks. Users are
provided with three methods of searching the available information from this
entry point. These methods include navigation through the Navigation Tabs, Current Selection Filters, or through utilization
of the Search
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Navigation Tabs |
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Information on the BR website may be
accessed by selecting one of eleven horizontal navigation tabs located near
the top of the opening page. The first eight tabs outline the main information
centers of the BR, namely
Missions, CC Areas, Disciplines,
Risks,
R & T Questions, Tasks,
Deliverables and Processes. The
remaining three tabs are provided to assist the user and include
Search,
Links and
Help. Other methods of accessing information on the BR
website include use of Current Selection Filters and use of the
Simple/Advanced
Search
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This tab displays values of some of the typical parameters used for
mission planning purposes for the selected mission. Mission can be selected by clicking on the buttons
at the top of the page (ISS, Lunar & Mars).
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CC Areas (Crosscutting Areas) Information found under this tab provides a means of
sorting Risks and Enabling Questions according to pre-defined Crosscutting Areas.
Currently there are five separate thematic areas including:
(1) Human Health and Countermeasures (HHC),
(2) Autonomous Medical Care (AMC),
(3) Behavioral Health and Performance (BHP),
(4) Radiation Health (RH),
(5) Advanced Human Support Technologies (AHST).
Project schedules for each of the areas are also available on this page.
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Information found under this tab provides users a means
of examining Risks or Research & Technology Questions as they correlate to 15
individual disciplines. Selecting any of these 15 disciplines
also provides the user with a description of the nature of the associated
risks.
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The Risks web page provides users with the Risk data sheet of
the selected Risk. Risk can be selected from the list on the left hand side of the page.
Information available on this page
includes name of the risk, it's description, it's justification for various missions etc.
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R & T Questions (Research & Technology Questions) Research & Technology questions (R & TQs) represent the most important issues that must be
sufficiently addressed to either resolve or retire a risk, or to inform an accepted risk decision.
The page provides a list
of R & TQs that can be filtered by Crosscutting Areas, Disciplines, Mission, Risk Rating or Risks. Note that since the Risk Rating depends upon the Mission type selection,
the Risk Rating filter becomes available only when a Mission type is selected. (i.e. It does not say "All"). Upon selecting a R & TQ; from this list,
the right hand side of the page will show you the data sheet for selected R & TQ for various missions.
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The Task tab contains information on the on-going/completed research experiments for solving Research & Technology Questions.
These experiments also called "Tasks" are funded by NASA grants.
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This page provides information about roadmap deliverables. Roadmap deliverables are specific products that have been identified as desirable outcomes or solutions to the R&TQ. They have date-specific expectations associated with them in order to meet
exploration mission milestones.
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The key elements of the Roadmap and their inter-relations are shown in the process flowchart on this page.
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Current Selection Filters |
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The Current Selection filters offer more relevant results to be returned by selecting specific criteria in the filter pulldown menus.
For example, if you want to look for all the risks in discipline Bone Loss with Priority 2 for ISS mission, you can go to Risk tab, select
Bone Loss in discipline filter, select ISS in missions filter and select Priority 2 in Risk Rating filter. The Risk list below the filter will
get filtered accordingly to show you all the risk titles that fit in above mentioned criteria.
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Another way of accessing
information is to conduct a simple or advanced search for a
keyword, phrase or category.
Search is
one of the eleven horizontal navigation tabs located at the top of each page. |
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Search |
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Users may conduct simple or advanced
searches to access Risk or Research & Technology Question information on the BR
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Simple Search:
A simple search may be conducted by inserting a keyword or phrase and
pressing the Find button. Any search results returned matching the search
criteria will be organized by Risk and Research & Technology Question and will include
a link to that corresponding web page. Search results in the Risk category
will show both the corresponding risk number and the risk title. Search
results in the R & T Question category will show the question number,
the text of the Research & Technology question and a link to that corresponding web
page.
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Advanced Search:
An advanced search may be conducted by inserting keywords, phrases, and
limitations on search options available on the
Advanced Search
page. These options allow the user to narrow or specify the search for
Risks or Research & Technology Questions within a specific
category. Any search results returned matching the search criteria will be
organized by Risk and Research & Technology Question and will include a link to the data.
Search results in the Risk category will show both
the corresponding risk number and the risk title. Search results in the
R & T Question category will show the question number, the text of the
Research & Technology question and a link to the data.
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Printable Views/Documents |
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The entire website content is merged into a PDF document called "Baseline Document". This document
can be download from the homepage by clicking on the Baseline Document button.
The website offers many ways to print Risk data sheets
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Under the Risk tab, Risk Data Sheets can be printed for the current "Selected Mission" or for
"All Missions" by clicking the desired button.
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Risk data sheets for all the risks are also available in PDF format on Missions, CC Areas, Disciplines and Risk tabs. Click on
Get All Risks in PDF document right below the Clear Filter button on left hand side.
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Supported Browsers |
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We continually optimize this website
for use with the most popular web browsers. Our currently supported browsers
include: Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 5.x and above and Netscape
Navigator 6.2 and above. You should be able to access this website with
older browsers (such as MS IE 4.x or Netscape Navigator 4.x) and with other
browsers (such as Opera), although you may experience some loss of
performance, display quality, or functionality. |
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Contact Us |
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| To submit General Questions, Comments or Feedback please click here. |
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Search Tips |
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| How does BR
search work? |
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After you've typed your search words
or phrase into the Search box and clicked on the "Find" button, BR
searches it's database for matches. By default, Search looks for
matches on all words in the query box. If you receive too many or too few
results, you can alter your search method by using some of the options
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| General tips to
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Use Advanced Search tab for searching. It gives more options to fine tune your search.
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Use multiple, relevant words in your search. Common words are used more frequently and are
found on multiple pages. Increasing the number of relevant words will result in fewer results to review.
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Use the "Exact Phrase" option in the Advanced Search tab if you know an exact phrase that applies to your search.
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Use the the Simple Search - "Search Within Results" feature to search only within the current
results which further narrows your result set.
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Check the spelling of your words.
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Do not use most commonly used words. Search ignores most commonly used words like and, or, in, to etc.
Thus they don't add any value to the search. Also try to avoid punctuation marks and special characters.
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