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Space Studies Board Annual Report-1994 (Activities and Membership)
Space Studies Board Annual Report-1994 (Activities and Membership)
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devoted most of its energy to completion of a sweeping CHAPTER 4 status assessment of fields within its scope, but heard from NOAA/NESDIS CHAPTER 5 officials on several occasions about changes being made in the operational APPENDIX A.1 environmental satellite program. The CMGR spent much of its time developing APPENDIX A.2 the two space station letter reports it coauthored with the Committee on Space APPENDIX A.3 Biology and Medicine (CSBM)
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repair mission a complete success, and closed out the old Space Station Freedom program in favor of a leaner management approach based on a single prime contract with the Boeing company. The major concerns over the proposed budget were in the out-year projections, where the total space research funding essentially tracked the drop off in Cassini and AXAF development funding; even forecasted continued growth in EOS did not appear to arrest the overall decline, which thus reflected a real progressive stagnation of research funding rather than a simple rebalancing of the program in favor of the Mission to Planet Earth.
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The research strategy being assembled by the Committees on Solar and Space Physics and on Solar-Terrestrial Research was presented for approval; it was decided that an updated draft would be distributed to the Board for a second review and approval by mail ballot. A briefing on the Clementine mission was presented by Lt.
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In a June 7 hearing, appropriations subcommittee Chair Barbara Mikulski suggested that either AXAF or Cassini might need to be cut, in addition to reductions in the space station. This threat was clearly an appeal to the Administration for help in obtaining "additional sources of revenue," as the high-stakes game of chicken continued.
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Sensenbrenner fell into line behind the station, whose prospects were now looking much improved. Also on June 23, Administrator Goldin and Russian Space Agency Director General Juri Koptev signed both an "Interim Agreement for the Conduct of Activities Leading to a Russian Partnership in Permanently Manned Civil Space Station" and a $400 million agreement for Russian space hardware and services.
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The meeting also featured program status briefings by Associate Administrators Huntress, Kennel, and Holloway. Assistant Administrator for Strategic Planning Peggy Finarelli presented the new NASA Strategic Plan, and Chief Scientist Cordova briefed the Board on activities of the new NASA Science Council and on a number of far-reaching strategic science policy questions under current study.
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By the 16th, when an official NASA press release explaining the situation and ongoing planning was circulated on the internet, recognition appeared to be spreading that the highly rated far ultraviolet astronomy objectives addressed by FUSE were not, in fact, being abandoned, but instead were being rescoped for survival, a process already undergone by AXAF and Cassini (not to mention the space station)
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Conversations on program status and planning were held with NASA Chief Scientist Cordova, Associate Administrator Kennel and Dr. Robert Harriss of the Office of Mission to Planet Earth, and Associate Administrators Huntress and Holloway.
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New Committee on Solar and Space Physics Chair Janet Luhmann reported that her committee's research strategy was out for institutional review; Board approval was obtained for two new studies, one a research briefing on space weather and the other an assessment of solar and space physics aspects of the new Office of Space Science strategic plan. Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration Chair Joseph Burns told the Board about the status of three reports: the integrated strategy was in final edit; the assessment of the role of small planetary missions in planetary science was in review; and the study on lessons learned from the Clementine mission was in progress.
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The Cassini and AXAF development programs remained on track. And granting certain new risks from the incorporation of a major new international partner, the space station seemed somewhat stabilized under a more realistic management structure.
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Dr. Louis Lanzerotti, former chair of the Space Studies Board and currently the U.S.
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The Board's Committee on International Programs will be reconstituted to lead the Board effort on this study. JOINT COMMITTEE ON TECHNOLOGY FOR SPACE SCIENCE AND APPLICATIONS The Joint Committee on Technology for Space Science and Applications, an activity conducted jointly by the Space Studies Board and the NRC's Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board, was restructured during 1994 as the Task Group on Technology of the Future of Space Science project.
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He discussed the issue of comparative technical readiness for the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrometer and the Near-Infrared Camera, the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) , and the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA)
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University of California at Santa Cruz Holland C Ford, Space Telescope Science Institute Jonathan E
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Dr. Charles Kennel, recently appointed associate administrator for the Mission to Planet Earth (MTPE)
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The purpose of the study was "to identify realistic opportunities for additional cost savings through further integration of all or parts of the DoD and NOAA operational polar-orbiting environmental satellite programs and capitalizing on NASA EOS-PM technologies." The tri-agency study had begun in July 1993, and had been submitted to OSTP for review; an implementation plan was to be submitted to Congress by April 1994. The Committee on Earth Studies met a second time in Washington, D.C., on April 7 and 8.
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The summer meeting of the Committee on Earth Studies was convened at the NAS Georgetown facility on July 6-7. Much of the first day was devoted to finalizing responses to Board comments on the survey report.
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Wilbur Trafton, deputy associate administrator for Space Station, on an overview of ISSA and its program management plan; Captain William Shepherd, deputy program manager file:///C|/SSB_old_web/an94ch2.htm (18 of 39)
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Harry Holloway, associate administrator of the Office of Life and Microgravity Sciences and Applications, on changes since the committee's February 1994 letter related to the status of Spacelab and space station research management; Dr. Joan Vernikos and Mr.
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term expired during 1994 COMMITTEE ON PLANETARY AND LUNAR EXPLORATION The Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration (COMPLEX) met at NASA Ames Research Center on February 23-25 to revise its report, An Integrated Strategy for the Planetary Sciences: 1995-2010, in response to NRC review.
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The committee met again at the Beckman Center in Irvine, California, on May 31-June 3 to finish drafting the report, The Role of Small Missions in Planetary and Lunar Exploration. The meeting alternated between discussions, writing, and relevant presentations.
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Much of the remainder of the meeting was devoted to briefings on the activities of the Board's task group on a proposed Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) 4-meter telescope and on the status of the planetary astronomy programs at NASA and NSF.
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Mr. Wilbur Trafton, deputy associate administrator for Space Station, and Captain William Shepherd, of JSC's Space Station Office, briefed the committee on the station's current design, the schedule for its assembly, and accommodations for research.
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Dr. Joan Vernikos, director of NASA's Life and Biomedical Sciences and Applications Division, discussed issues associated with the space station and the Shuttle-Mir program, including Russian participation as research subjects, funding for and location of the centrifuge facility on the station, and accommodations for precursor research formerly scheduled for now-canceled Spacelab flights.
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met jointly in Washington, D.C., on February 16-18 to continue work on their strategy report and to review the budget status of their sponsoring agencies. The CSTR is a committee of the NRC's Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate.
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The committees discussed and revised sections of the space physics strategy report, which had been approved by the Space Studies Board in late February with several suggested revisions. A number of illustrations that would improve the document were identified.
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Mark Schoeberl (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) on the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite's contribution to solar and space physics and by Dr.
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Ormes,* NASA Goddard Space Flight Center George W
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After a discussion by Chair Daniel Fink on the history and background of the study and the overall structure of the FOSS effort, members heard a series of orientation briefings. NASA Chief Scientist France Cordova described the present NASA organizational structure with emphasis on the science organizations, strategic planning, the role of the chief file:///C|/SSB_old_web/an94ch2.htm (29 of 39)
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Anticipating great competition among the science programs in FY96, including a planned Mission to Planet Earth program increase within a roughly constant (at best) total science budget, Mr.
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Walker, Jr., Stanford University Sidney C Wolff, National Optical Astronomy Observatories Richard C
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The conceptual framework for the NASA Strategic Plan was based on a number of "enterprises" (Mission to Planet Earth, aeronautics, human exploration and development of space, scientific research, and space technology) , functions (transportation, space communications, human resources, and physical resources)
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The committee members were very interested, and it was decided that the plan and its implementation would be a major focus of the next meeting, scheduled for November 14-16. The two other NASA science offices, the Office of Life and Microgravity Sciences and Applications and the Office of Mission to Planet Earth, briefly discussed their planning in advanced technology development.
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The meeting was attended also by an invited technical advisor to the committee, Dr. Henry Plotkin, recently retired from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
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, in previous recommendations of the Space Studies Board's Committee on Space Astronomy and Astrophysics, and in earlier astronomy and astrophysics survey committee reports. At the meeting, the task group heard a series of presentations by Drs.
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, the committee toured Lockheed facilities relevant to a possible 4-meter telescope flight project. These facilities included the DELTA thermal vacuum chamber, a large acoustic test chamber, the assembly line for MILSTAR, Mir, and Space Station solar arrays, and the F Sat/Iridium assembly area.
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Illingworth, University of California at Santa Cruz Holland C Ford, Johns Hopkins University, liaison from Space Telescope Science Institute David H
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Low, Massachusetts Institute of Technology John C Mather, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Richard E
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