What are the responsibilities of OBPR within NASA?
The Office of Biological and Physical Research conducts basic and applied research to support human exploration of space and to take advantage of the space environment as a laboratory. OBPR creates unique cross-disciplinary research programs, bringing the basic sciences of physics, biology, and chemistry together with a wide range of engineering disciplines. The Enterprise asks questions that are basic to our future: How can human existence expand beyond the home planet to achieve maximum benefits from space? How do fundamental laws of nature shape the evolution of life? OBPR is not responsible for the following programs: NASA’s Space Science Enterprise is responsible for all of NASA’s programs relating to astronomy, the solar system, life on other planets (Astrobiology) and the sun and its interaction with Earth including all of NASA’s telescopes and planetary probes as well as research covering everything from the middle levels of Earth’s atmosphere (about 60 kilometers up) to the ed
