title: [Chronology of the International Space Station and the Centrifuge: actions taken by Japanese Society for Biological Sciences in Space].
abstract: History of the International Space Station (ISS) since its beginning in the early 1980's is shortly summarized. The programmatic objective has been converted several times under many changes in political, economical and social agenda at both domestic and global level. The Centrifuge issue after the cost over-run of the ISS in 2001 is a good case to ask the core subjects and the program concept again. Japanese Society for Biological Sciences in Space has taken several actions for the Centrifuge.
authors.affiliation: Inst. Space AstronSci.
authors.forename: Masamichi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yamashita
mesh_terms: D002498:Centrifugation / Q000295:instrumentation*; D007564:Japan; D013026:Space Flight / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000639:trends; D018531:Spacecraft / Q000295:instrumentation*; D014893:Weightlessness