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2 Planning at NASA
Pages 8-12

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... , reported on in NRC studies, and then translated by NASA's roadmapping teams into integrated implementation plans supportive of the agency's mission. In their most comprehensive form, these NRC studies have strived to identify the potentially most revolutionary science activities in a specific scientific discipline that should be undertaken within a decade.1 Through this process explicit priorities are set, and numerous mission and program concepts assessed as not meeting the standard for producing potentially transformational science are eliminated.
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From page 9...
... Complete assembly of the International Space Station and focus research to support space exploration goals, with emphasis on understanding how the space environment affects human health and capabilities, and developing countermeasures.*
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... So was the Voyager mission to the outer planets, which revealed new and unanticipated worlds; the Hubble Space Telescope, which observes the wonders of the distant universe; and the Earth Observing System missions, which reveal the fantastic complexity of global-scale environmental connectivities on our home planet. Lesser-known programs have also made dramatic advances, such as the collection of missions that have revealed the complexity of Earth's magnetosphere or the dynamic behavior of the Sun, the results of which are crucial to successful human habitation of space beyond low Earth orbit.
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... More than simply development problems, those challenges are multifaceted and will require fundamental discoveries enabled by crosscutting research that spans traditional discipline boundaries. INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION An important aspect of the roadmapping process for fulfilling NASA's new major objectives will involve international activities.
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... Concerns with costs underscore the need for a compelling plan for the science that can be accomplished only with the ISS. NASA's goals to continue exploration of the universe through its robotic science missions, and now to move forward with human exploration, will require expanded resources.
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