Space Biology Advanced Plant Habitat No Longer Available for Proposed ISS-Studies

ROSES-24 Amendment 121: E.9 Space Biology Advanced Plant Habitat No Longer Available for Proposed ISS-Studies

The research emphases of E.9 Space Biology: Research Studies falls under two broad categories: Precision Health and Space Crops. For Precision Health-focused studies, investigators may propose to use any non-primate animal model system, and any appropriate cell/tissue culture/microphysiological system/organoid or microbial models, that are supported by the chosen platform. For Space Crop-focused studies, applicants may propose to use any plant, relevant microbe, and/or plant and microbe model system(s) that is (are) supported by the chosen platform.

ROSES-2024 Amendment 121 restricts available NASA Hardware for flight studies on the International Space Station (ISS) for proposals submitted to E.9. Due to recent resource constraints, NASA can no longer offer the Advanced Plant Habitat (APH) as hardware for applicants proposing plant experiments on the International Space Station. Thus, applicants to E.9 are no longer permitted to propose the use of APH. The due date for Step-2 proposal submission remains June 2, 2025.

On or about April 24, 2025, this Amendment to the NASA Research Announcement “Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) 2024” (NNH24ZDA001N) will be posted on the NASA research opportunity homepage at https://solicitation.nasaprs.com/ROSES2024 and will appear on SARA’s ROSES blog at: https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/solicitations/roses-2024/

Questions concerning E.9 Space Biology: Research Studies may be directed to Lynn Harrison (for Precision Health) and Elison Blancaflor (for Space Crops) at [email protected].

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