Access and Visualization of Spaceflight Environmental-Telemetry Data for Biological Science

There is a critical need for better access and visualization of spaceflight environmental data from mission hardware sensors including relative humidity, carbon dioxide, oxygen, radiation, airflow, temperature, acceleration, and acoustics. This is needed to provide scientific context of its impact upon biological and biomedical data from spaceflight missions and experiments (genomic, metagenomic, gene expression, proteomic, metabolomic, physiological, phenomic, behavioral; tabular, imaging, video). Environmental spaceflight data is derived from dozens of sources, with various formats, and in the past year a streamlined pipeline has been established to curate and present this data efficiently. A new Data Visualization Portal has been developed to provide easy user access to compare parameters between missions, locations, subjects, and durations. As part of NASA GeneLab and NASA Ames Life Sciences Data Archive, this stewardship of environmental and hardware data enables broad accessibility and analytics, without the need for advanced data informatic expertise. Biological and environmental data is now maximally open-access and FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable) for data mining-informatic approaches to support knowledge discovery necessary for low Earth orbit, cis-Lunar, Mars transit, and Mars surface missions.