Principal-Investigator-Led Missions in the Space Sciences

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Principal Investigator-Led (PI-led) missions are an important element of NASA s space science enterprise. While several NRC studies have considered aspects of PI-led missions in the course of other studies for NASA, issues facing the PI-led missions in general have ...
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Front Matter	i-xii
Executive Summary	1-9	(skim)
1 Introduction	10-15	(skim)
2 PI-Led Programs, Roles, and Relationships	16-23	(skim)
3 The Selection Process	24-30	(skim)
4 Management of PI-Led Missions	31-37	(skim)
5 PI-Led Mission Performance: Cost, Schedule, and Science	38-51	(skim)
6 Lessons Learned from PI-Led Mission Experiences	52-56	(skim)
7 Conclusions and Recommendations	57-74	(skim)
Appendix A Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff	75-80	(skim)
Appendix B Previous Space Studies Board Report Findings and Recommendations on Principal-Investigator-Led Missions	81-87	(skim)
Appendix C Definitions of PI-Led Missions From NASA Announcements of Opportunity	88-91	(skim)
Appendix D Excerpts on PI-Led Missions from National Research Council Decadal Survey Reports	92-97	(skim)
Appendix E Major Changes in Requirements Between Announcements of Opportunity	98-99	(skim)
Appendix F Number of Publications from Explorer and Discovery Missions	100-100	(skim)
Appendix G Previous Studies on Lessons Learned from PI-Led Missions	101-104	(skim)
Appendix H Acronyms	105-108	(skim)
Appendix I Excerpt from the National Academy of Public Administration Report Principal Investigator-Led Missions in Space Science	109-120	(skim)

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Principal Investigator-Led (PI-led) missions are an important element of NASA s space science enterprise. While several NRC studies have considered aspects of PI-led missions in the course of other studies for NASA, issues facing the PI-led missions in general have not been subject to much analysis in those studies. Nevertheless, these issues are raising increasingly important questions for NASA, and it requested the NRC to explore them as they currently affect PI-led missions. Among the issues NASA asked to have examined were those concerning cost and scheduling, the selection process, relationships among PI-led team members, and opportunities for knowledge transfer to new PIs. This report provides a discussion of the evolution and current status of the PIled mission concept, the ways in which certain practices have affected its performance, and the steps that can carry it successfully into the future. The study was done in collaboration with the National Academy of Public Administration.

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