AS RECOGNIZED PROMINENTLY BY THE APRA PROGRAM INTERPRETATION OF NASA ASTROPHYSICAL MISSION OBSERVATIONS REQUIRES SIGNIFICANT PRODUCTS OF LABORATORY ASTROPHYSICS FOR EXAMPLE SPECTRAL LINES AND TRANSITION PROBABILITIES ELECTRON- PROTON- OR HEAVY-PARTICLE COLLISION DATA. AVAILABILITY OF THESE DATA UNDERPIN ROBUST AND VALIDATED MODELS OF ASTROPHYSICAL EMISSIONS AND ABSORPTIONS ENERGY MOMENTUM AND PARTICLE TRANSPORT DYNAMICS AND REACTIONS. THEREFORE MEASURED OR COMPUTATIONALLY DERIVED ANALYZED AND READILY AVAILABLE LABORATORY ASTROPHYSICS DATA SIGNIFICANTLY ENHANCES THE SCIENTIFIC RETURN ON NASA MISSIONS SUCH AS HST SPITZER AND JWST. IN THE PRESENT WORK A COMPREHENSIVE SET OF DATA WILL BE DEVELOPED FOR THE UBIQUITOUS PROTON-HYDROGEN AND HYDROGEN-HYDROGEN COLLISIONS IN ASTROPHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS INCLUDING ISM SHOCKS SUPERNOVA REMNANTS AND BUBBLES HI CLOUDS YOUNG STELLAR OBJECTS AND WINDS WITHIN STELLAR SPHERES COVERING THE NECESSARY WIDE RANGE OF ENERGY- AND CHARGE-CHANGING CHANNELS COLLISION ENERGIES AND MOST RELEVANT SCATTERING PARAMETERS. IN ADDITION BUILDING ON PRELIMINARY WORK A TRANSPORT AND REACTION SIMULATION WILL BE DEVELOPED INCORPORATING THE ELASTIC AND INELASTIC COLLISION DATA COLLECTED AND PRODUCED. THE WORK WILL BUILD UPON SIGNIFICANT PREVIOUS EFFORTS OF THE PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS AND COLLABORATORS WILL RESULT IN A COMPREHENSIVE DATA SET REQUIRED FOR MODELING THESE ENVIRONMENTS AND INTERPRETING NASA ASTROPHYSICAL MISSION OBSERVATIONS AND WILL BENEFIT FROM FEEDBACK FROM COLLABORATORS WHO ARE ACTIVE USERS OF THE WORK PROPOSED.
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