NASA’s Human Research Program (HRP) has released solicited research response area NRA 80JSC019N0001-OMNIBUS “NASA Human Research Program Omnibus Opportunity” that solicits applied research in support of HRP goals and objectives. This response area is Appendix B of the Human Exploration Research Opportunities (HERO) NRA (80JSC019N0001).

The research will fall into one or more categories corresponding to HRP’s five Elements: Space Radiation, Human Health Countermeasures, Exploration Medical Capability, Human Factors and Behavioral Performance, and Research Operations and Integration. This NRA covers all aspects of research to provide human health and performance countermeasures, knowledge, technologies, and tools to enable safe, reliable, and productive human space exploration.

NASA is soliciting investigations lasting no more than one year that provide innovative approaches to any of the risks and gaps contained in the Integrated Research Plan (http://humanresearchroadmap.nasa.gov) of the Human Research Program. NASA is also soliciting novel research ideas that might not be directly aligned with HRP’s identified risks from new investigators who have not received funding from NASA HRP, the National Space Biomedical Research Institute, or the Translational Research Institute for Space Health in the last ten years.

Appendix B of the HERO NRA and associated documentation can be found at: https://tinyurl.com/HERO19-OMNIBUS.

The HERO NRA including all open appendices is available through the NASA Research Opportunities homepage at: https://tinyurl.com/NASA-HERO-2019.

A virtual Pre-Proposers Conference is scheduled for August 16, 2019, and more details will be posted shortly alongside this solicitation on NSPIRES. Appendix B Step-1 proposals are due September 5, 2019.  Invited Appendix B Step-2 proposals are due December 2, 2019.