NASA will host an international conference on astrobiology science to be held this spring at NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, California, on April 3-5, 2000. The focus of the meeting is on scientific results that illustrate the broad multidisciplionary nature of astrobiology. As such, this conference will complement other, more narrowly focused meetings that
deal primarily with one or two subdisciplines of astrobiology. We hope that this conference will become an annual event and will help to develop a growing constituency for astrobiology within the international scientific community.

What is Astrobiology?
Astrobiology is the study of the origin, evolution, distribution, and destiny of life in the universe. It uses multiple scientific disciplines and space technologies to address fundamental questions:

How does life begin and develop?

Does life exist elsewhere in the universe?

What is life's future on Earth and beyond?

These questions are age-old. But now, for the first time in human history, advances in the biological sciences, space exploration and space technology make it possible for us to answer them.

Full Story: http://astrobiology.arc.nasa.gov/conferences/2000/ABSciConf/

Mitch Battros
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