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1. Introduction
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... NASA is generally a mission-orientecI agency, whereas NSF's primary goal is to fund basic research. Despite NASA's mission orientation, the support for observations and related theory on both ground-based and satellite observatories uncler NASA sponsorship is primarily science driven and parallels (and now exceeds)
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... NASA's mission is to fund research that supports flight programs and campaigns such as Origins, whereas NSF's mission is to support basic research. Have these overall missions been adequately coordinated, and has this resulted in an optimum science program from the stancipoint of productivity?
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