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据《自然》周刊最近报道,美国国家航天局(NASA)最近收到各种研究团体的大量倡议:他们都希望能参与该航天局新建的天体生物学研究所的工作,以共同开展有关宇宙生命问题的跨学科研究。 如果事情进展顺利,那么该研究所就可能使航天局的研究活动跨出其传统研究领域——天体物理和行星地质学。根据航天局的计划,天体生物学研究所将是一所“虚拟研究所”,即一个联结全国开展有关研究机构的半独立性网络,它将设在圣弗朗西斯科外郊的阿姆斯(Ames)研究中心里。它将利用下一代的Internet来使研究人员通过电视进行合作。其第一年的预算为700万美元,明年将增加到800万,第三年将增加到1000万。航天局已保证将至少对它提供资助20年”。
According to a recent report by Nature Weekly, NASA recently received numerous initiatives from various research groups that all want to participate in the new astrobiology institute of the space agency to work together on cosmic life Interdisciplinary research on issues. If things are going well, the Institute may have taken NASA research out of its traditional research fields - astrophysics and planetary geology. Under the space agency's plan, the Institute for Astrobiology will be a “virtual institute,” a semi-independent network linking research institutes across the country, to be located on the outskirts of San Francisco's Ames ) Research center. It will leverage the next generation of Internet to bring researchers together on television. Its first-year budget is $ 7 million, increasing to 8 million next year and to 10 million in the third year. NASA has pledged at least 20 years to fund it. "