American Society for Gravitational and Space Research

American Society for Gravitational and Space Research

American Society of Gravitational and Space Research Badge of Honor

The American Society for Gravitational and Space Research (ASGSR)  was founded to foster and promote research, education and professional development in the multidisciplinary fields of gravitational research.  ASGSR brings together a diverse group of scientists and engineers to encourage an exchange of ideas bridging discovery and invention through biological and physical science research and technology in space and gravitational sciences. The members represent academia, government, and industry interests bonded by a common issue - how living organisms and physical systems respond to gravity.

See what our scientists and engineers were talking about at our annual meeting (2019 was held in Denver, Colorado November 20th-23rd). See some of the talks below...

Mars Mission Review

*NASA's Mars Design Reference Architecture 5.0 (NASA): https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/373665main_N... 

'SHARAD detection and characterization of subsurface water ice deposits in Utopia Planitia, Mars' (Geophysical Research Letters): https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.c... 

'Exposed subsurface ice sheets in the Martian mid-latitudes' (Science): https://science.sciencemag.org/conten... 

*'Radar evidence of subglacial liquid water on Mars' (Science): https://science.sciencemag.org/conten... 

In this excellent video the "Aspiring Martian Colonist and Exoplanet Researcher Ryan MacDonald" covers the progress made towards sending people to Mars in the 2010s, the greatest scientific discoveries on the red planet this decade, and the changing perception of crewed Mars missions in society.

 -----Further information and links on human response to spaceflight----- 

ISS One Year Mission (NASA): https://www.nasa.gov/1ym 

'The NASA Twins Study: A multidimensional analysis of a year-long human spaceflight' (Science): https://science.sciencemag.org/conten...  

Planet memory game...