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REIMBURSABLE SPACE ACT AGREEMENT BETWEENReimbursable Space Act Agreement • June 20th, 2023
This Reimbursable Space Act Agreement documents a collaboration between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center and Washington University in St. Louis, on behalf of its Department of Physics, to conduct shock-recovery experiments on meteorite and simulant samples provided to JSC by WUSTL. One of the top universities for planetary-science research in the United States, Washington University in St. Louis is the home institution of the McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences. Its personnel conduct world-class work on topics as varied as rover-based Martian investigations, noble-gas measurements of planetary materials, and studies of meteorites and cosmic dust. Scientists at WUSTL have received a grant to study the effects of shock on a particular class of meteorites (carbonaceous chondrites), but in order to conduct those studies, they require a means of shocking their samples to a range of specific stress levels. Their facility of choice is the Fl
