Abstract: The NASA Life Sciences Research Capabilities Team (LSRCT) has been discussing deep space research needs for the last two years. NASA’s programs conducting life sciences studies – the Human Research Program, Space Biology, Astrobiology, and Planetary Protection – see the Deep Space Gateway (DSG) as affording enormous opportunities to investigate biological organisms in a unique environment that cannot be replicated in Earth-based laboratories or on Low Earth Orbit science platforms. These inve…