Journal of The Japan Society of Microgravity Application
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Japanese Programs of Fundamental Physics and Chemistry in Space
Masamichi ISHIKAWA ,Hiroto KOBAYASHTakeyoshi TAKENOUCHI
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2004 Volume 21 Issue 2 Pages 154-

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Scientific domains under microgravity have been expanded according to the progress of space station programs. Since future missions in space experiments are extending to biotechnology, medicine and nanotechnology in relation to the great challenge of human exploration to Mars, we recognized to re-organize the scientific disciplines of micorgravity research programs. We remapped the fundamental sciences using ISS as: 1) fluid sciences which investigates transport phenomena and physics of materials processing, 2) fundamental physics which investigates physical laws in the microscopic scales regulating the complex nature of our world, and 3) chemistry which realizes nanoscale to mesoscale structures from molecular levels and investigates elementary chemical processes in space environment.
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