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2 Activities and Membership
2 Activities and Membership
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Three full-length, formal reports were issued, and status assessments were carried out for a number of approved or proposed planetary exploration missions. Letter reports were released on planning for NOAA long-term operational satellites and for DOE facilities used for space radiation research.
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Members heard about research results of the previous year's Space Life Sciences (SLS-1) shuttle mission and were briefed by officials of the Space Station Freedom office on station program progress, including current plans for the life sciences centrifuge and associated equipment.
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, submitted by the Committee on Space Biology and Medicine, discussed the importance of continued operation of the Department of Energy's BEVALAC facility to space radiation biology research. These letter reports were discussed by the Board and received tentative approval, subject to indicated revisions.
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In other activities at the meeting, the Board was briefed by Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Research Chair Donald Williams about the results of the joint study by that committee and the Board's Committee on Solar and Space Physics on trends in research support. In subsequent discussion, the Board approved both a new charge for the Committee on Earth Studies and the Phase 2 report of the Committee on Human Exploration, which describes science objectives that could be enabled or materially enhanced by a human exploration program.
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Membership of the Space Studies Board Louis J Lanzerotti,§ AT&T Bell Laboratories (chair)
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science program and approved a draft report by its subpanel, the European Earth Observation Panel. This report was subsequently published as A Strategy for Earth Observation from Space (European Science Foundation, September 1992)
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Eldridge, Executive Secretary __________________________ * term expired during 1992 §member, Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board COMMITTEE ON ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS and TASK GROUP ON AXAF After a hiatus of over four years, astronomy and astrophysics returned to committee status within the Space Studies Board.
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Participants included NASA managers and head scientists, as well as a number of principal investigators for the mission. The TGA considered whether the restructuring met the scientific rationale as envisioned in previous reports from the Space Studies Board and from NRC astronomy survey committees.
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The resulting proposal, which was submitted to the Board and approved at its November meeting, provides for the committee to update its report, Assessment of Satellite Earth Observation Programs -- 1991, and to conduct a study identifying critical issues in U.S. earth sciences and applications programs.
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The major action taken to finish the science opportunities report was to ensure that the scientific activities singled out by the Board's collaborating discipline committees as those especially enabled by a human exploration program were consistent with a series of general guidelines for scientific participation in human exploration developed in the committee's first, and completed, report on the science that must be done to enable a program of extended human spaceflight. A draft of the Opportunities report was submitted to the Board for approval at its November meeting in Irvine, on November 18-20, and was approved pending minor changes.
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At a subsequent meeting at the Lewis Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, on May 20-21, members reviewed the microgravity activities and facilities at the center and continued work on their strategy for microgravity research. The committee met again on July 21-22, September 21-22, and November 16-17, 1992, to work on the strategy report.
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At a fourth meeting on September 21-23 at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, COMPLEX continued work on its integrated research strategy. COMPLEX received briefings on planetary magnetospheres that were omitted from the July meeting agenda because of schedule conflicts.
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Other topics included future missions to Mercury, the use of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) for planetary observations, and the results of a recent study on the mitigation of asteroid hazards.
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The committee met again on May 14-15 in Washington. In an effort to broaden its understanding of the capabilities and research potential of various former Soviet Union space facilities, such as the space station Mir and the Cosmos biosatellite series, the committee devoted a significant amount of the meeting to discussing these topics.
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The resulting Report on a Space Physics Paradox will address the question: Why has increased funding been accompanied by increased dissatisfaction in the research community? The federated committee planned for its new research strategy project and reviewed the status of its study on atmospheric electricity.
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in San Francisco to solicit suggestions for the new research strategy. Approximately 250-300 members of the AGU Space Physics and Aeronomy Section attended the session, and a number of contributions were received.
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During a July 27-30 workshop at Woods Hole, the task group tested and validated its model space research proposal and evaluation instrument. Outside guests, representing some of the major disciplines of space research, evaluated representative projects using the prototype proposal and evaluation instruments to gauge how effective and valid their application to actual projects would be.
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Purcell, Executive Secretary __________________________ * term expired during 1992 Last update 8/22/00 at 10:29 am Site managed by Anne Simmons, Space Studies Board file:///C|/SSB_old_web/an92ch2.htm (18 of 19)
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