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PAPERBACK price:$21.00 add to cart Rights & Permissions Free PDF Access Sign in to download PDF book and chapters Free Resources PDF SUMMARY PDF Report Brief Display this book on your site! Related Titles An Enabling Foundation for NASA's Space and Earth Science Missions Supporting Research and Data Analysis in NASA's Science Programs:Engines for Innovation and Synthesis Other Related Titles Revitalizing NASA's Suborbital Program: Advancing Science, Driving Innovation, and Developing a Workforce (2010) Space Studies Board (SSB) Citation Manager Export the bibliographic data for this book in your chosen format 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. Citation Manager . "Appendix F: NASA Sounding Rocket Budget History." Revitalizing NASA's Suborbital Program: Advancing Science, Driving Innovation, and Developing a Workforce. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2010. Please select a format: Page 88   E-mail Share on facebook Facebook Share on delicious Delicious Share on stumbleupon Stumble Share on twitter Twitter More Sharing ServicesMore The following HTML text is provided to enhance online readability. Many aspects of typography translate only awkwardly to HTML. Please use the page image as the authoritative form to ensure accuracy. F NASA Sounding Rocket Budget History The complicated and sometimes uncertain (e.g., item 7 below) funding history for the NASA sounding rocket program is indicated below and in Figure F.1 for fiscal years 1987-2009. Until full cost accounting (FCA; pre-2004), all NOA went toward procurements, and CS Labor and NASA overhead were not part of the program budget. As such, the NOA and Procurement Funding lines are virtually identical. The fiscal year (FY) 2004 NOA included all FCA elements (CS Labor, Procurements, Facilities, Pools, CS Travel, CM&O, and so on); hence the out-of-character peak. In FY 2005, NASA altered how it handled FCA, and NOA began to cover only CS Labor, CS Travel, and Procurements. Other overhead costs were covered at the NASA level. As the program transitioned to NSROC in FY 1999, 34 CS FTEs were replaced by 34 contractor WYEs, but no additional long-term funding was provided for the additional labor cost. The peak in FY 1999 reflects the payback of $5.3 million “borrowed” by the Hubble program. The loans occurred in FY 1997 and FY 1998. In FY 1999 and beyond as the result of inadequate funding, the program had to reduce the flight rate and begin an era of inventory consumption in order to keep operating as long as possible. The program was poised to “go out of business” after FY 2008, as inventory levels became depleted. The program was rescued in 2008 when the SMD AA authorized a budget profile that would return the program to a healthy state. To restore the program to “full capability” (i.e., 28 flights/yr and Campaigns), the Procurement Funding line (red) must reach the Approximate Inflation line. These funding levels do not address the research and analysis budget that funds the scientific grants. Page 88 Front Matter (R1-R10) Executive Summary (1-3) 1 Introduction (4-7) 2 NASA's Airborne Research Capabilities (8-20) 3 NASA's Balloon Research Capabilities (21-33) 4 NASA's Sounding Rocket Capabilities (34-47) 5 The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (48-53) 6 Progressing from Education to Training to Workforce Development (54-59) 7 Potential Opportunities for Commercial Suborbital Capabilities (60-63) 8 An Overview of NASA's Suborbital Research Capabilities: Assessment, Findings, and Recommendations (64-67) Bibliography (68-68) Appendixes (69-70) Appendix A: NASA Request and NASA Authorization Act of 2008 Section 505 (71-74) Appendix B: Statement of Task (75-75) Appendix C: Public Agendas for Meetings (76-79) Appendix D: Biographies of Committee Members and Staff (80-84) Appendix E: Acronyms and Abbreviations (85-87) Appendix F: NASA Sounding Rocket Budget History (88-90)

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Revitalizing Nasa’s Suborbital Program: Advancing Science, Driving Innovation, and Developing a Workforce F NASA Sounding Rocket Budget History The complicated and sometimes uncertain (e.g., item 7 below) funding history for the NASA sounding rocket program is indicated below and in Figure F.1 for fiscal years 1987-2009. Until full cost accounting (FCA; pre-2004), all NOA went toward procurements, and CS Labor and NASA overhead were not part of the program budget. As such, the NOA and Procurement Funding lines are virtually identical. The fiscal year (FY) 2004 NOA included all FCA elements (CS Labor, Procurements, Facilities, Pools, CS Travel, CM&O, and so on); hence the out-of-character peak. In FY 2005, NASA altered how it handled FCA, and NOA began to cover only CS Labor, CS Travel, and Procurements. Other overhead costs were covered at the NASA level. As the program transitioned to NSROC in FY 1999, 34 CS FTEs were replaced by 34 contractor WYEs, but no additional long-term funding was provided for the additional labor cost. The peak in FY 1999 reflects the payback of $5.3 million “borrowed” by the Hubble program. The loans occurred in FY 1997 and FY 1998. In FY 1999 and beyond as the result of inadequate funding, the program had to reduce the flight rate and begin an era of inventory consumption in order to keep operating as long as possible. The program was poised to “go out of business” after FY 2008, as inventory levels became depleted. The program was rescued in 2008 when the SMD AA authorized a budget profile that would return the program to a healthy state. To restore the program to “full capability” (i.e., 28 flights/yr and Campaigns), the Procurement Funding line (red) must reach the Approximate Inflation line. These funding levels do not address the research and analysis budget that funds the scientific grants.

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Revitalizing Nasa’s Suborbital Program: Advancing Science, Driving Innovation, and Developing a Workforce FIGURE F.1 Funding history for the NASA sounding rocket program.

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