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PAPERBACK list:$21.00 Web:$18.90 add to cart Rights & Permissions Free PDF Access Free Resources Sign in to download PDF book and chapters Display this book on your site! Related Titles Space Studies Board Annual Report 2003 Space Studies Board Annual Report 2004 Other Related Titles Issues and Opportunities Regarding the U.S. Space Program: A Summary Report of a Workshop on National Space Policy (2004) Space Studies Board (SSB) Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (ASEB) Web Search Builder Use this book's key terms to search within this book, across our collection, or across the Web. Skim This Chapter Skim this chapter and use this chapter's key terms to search within this book. Reference Finder Paste in your own text to find books that relate to your topic. Page 49   E-mail  Facebook  Digg  Stumble  Twitter More Page 49 Front Matter (R1-R14) 1 Summary (1-7) 2 Introduction (8-13) 3 Origins of U.S. Space Policy (14-18) 4 Rationales for the Space Program: Science, Technology, and Exploration (19-23) 5 Rationales for the Space Program: National Security, Commerce, and International Cooperation (24-28) 6 Guiding Principles of a 21st Century Space Policy (29-33) 7 Boundary Conditions for Forging a 21st Century Space Policy (34-37) 8 Coming to Closure (38-42) Appendix A: Workshop Agenda (43-46) Appendix B: Workshop Participants (47-48) Appendix C: Statement of Task (49-49) Appendix D: Biographies of Workshop Speakers (50-52) Appendix E: Abstracts Prepared by Workshop Participants (53-78)

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Appendix C Statement of Task Workshop on National Space Policy November 12-13, 2003 Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center Irvine, California Space Studies Board and Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board The workshop will utilize brief presentations, pane! discussions, and general discussions to explore aspects of the question " What shouic! be the principalpurposes, goals, ancipriorities of U.S. civil space?" To do so. the workshop participants will be asked to consoler the following Questions: 1. ~ 1 What mixture of cultural, social, economic, and geopolitical factors has lect the United States government to invest substantially more in the civilian space program than any other nation, both in absolute terms and as a portion of national wealth? 2. What is the appropriate balance among these factors as the nation carries out a searching reassessment of its space policies and programs in the aftermath of the Columbia acciclent? 3. What are the appropriate roles of the fecleral government? 4. Is the level of investment today appropriate, too high, or too Tow, given other clemancts on the Fecleral budget? What principles should be applied in setting priorities for space activities? What principles apply to clefining proper balance across space activities? What role does in-situ human presence play in achieving the purposes that drive government investment in space? 8. What principles shouicl guide risk-benefit assessments for human space flight? 9. What should be the balance between humans and robots? 1 O. What should be the role of the International Space Station? 11. What are our needs for space transportation systems? The goal of the workshop will not be to clevelop definitive answers to these questions but to air a range of views and perspectives that will serve to inform later broacler public discussion of such questions. A summary report of the workshop, which will include extenclect abstracts of remarks prepared by inctiviclual panelists, will be published by the National Research Council soon after the workshop. 49

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