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... Bush to undertake a space exploration program with a clear set of goals, including implementation of "a sustained and affordable human and robotic program to explore the solar system and beyond."1 We have an opportunity, then, to pursue critical scientific questions that remain just beyond our grasp and to extend the human presence across the solar system and thus become a true space-faring civilization. The opportunities for future discovery are vast, encompassing our home planet Earth, the Moon and Mars and other places in the solar system where humans may be able to visit, the broader solar system including the Sun, and the vast universe beyond.
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... In that sense NASA's science program currently is and always has been planned with the intent to generate the paradigm-altering science that NASA should undertake. The committee considered how NRC science strategies and other reports can contribute to NASA's strategic planning process, and it makes the following recommendations: · The most recent NRC decadal surveys for the fields of astronomy and astrophysics, solar system exploration, solar and space physics, and the interface between fundamental physics and cosmology do provide appropriate guidance regarding the science that is critical for the next decade of space exploration.
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... Instead, the necessarily crosscutting advice should come from interdisciplinary groups of experts rather than from traditional committees that have a single scientific focus. Therefore the committee recommends that NASA identify scientific and technical areas critical to enabling the human exploration program and that it move quickly to give those areas careful attention in a process that emphasizes crosscutting reviews to reflect their interdisciplinary scope, generates rigorous priority setting like that achieved in the decadal science surveys, and utilizes input from a broad range of expertise in the scientific and technical community.
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