Exploring space and the potential for life beyond Earth's boundaries is NASA's ultimate challenge. In that venture, the technology triad of biotechnology, nanotechnology and information technology holds the key to mission success as the most likely source of breakthrough technologies in the coming decades. Within NASA, Ames is the only center that has the integrated research environment capable of exploiting these disciplines and technologies. Hence, Ames is NASA's pathfinder and the agency's technology engine of the future. Both within NASA and outside, many consider Ames to be the agency's premier research institution.
For further information about Biotechnology's role in the Space Sciences research arena, and NASA's role in general, please visit the following sites:
Click Here for information on NASA's biotechnology research
Click Here for a more detailed explanation of Biotechnology
Click Here for information on the Astrobiology Institute
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