2024 HERO Appendix B: NASA Human Research Program Omnibus Opportunity

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 (https://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 or early career investigators who have not received funding from NASA HRP, NASA Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research, the National Space Biomedical Research Institute, or the Translational Research Institute for Space Health in the last ten years. Early career investigators must additionally be no more than ten years from their terminal research degree or clinical training. See the solicitation for details.

Appendix B of the HERO NRA and associated documentation can be found at: https://tinyurl.com/HERO24-OMNIBUS.  

The HERO NRA, including all open appendices, is available through the NASA Research Opportunities homepage at: https://tinyurl.com/HERO24OVERVIEW.

A virtual Pre-Proposers Conference is scheduled for October 16, 2023, and more details are posted alongside this solicitation on NSPIRES. Appendix B Step-1 proposals are due November 1, 2023. Invited Appendix B Step-2 proposals are due January 30, 2024.

All categories of United States (U.S.) institutions are eligible to submit proposals in response to the NRA. Principal Investigators may collaborate with universities, Federal Government laboratories, the private sector, and state and local government laboratories. In all such arrangements, the applying entity is expected to be responsible for administering the project according to the management approach presented in the proposal. NASA’s policy is to conduct research with non-U.S. organizations on a cooperative, no exchange-of-funds basis.