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NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
June 18, 2004 Current Operating Status
On the Solar System Exploration Division's 1991 Strategic
Plan
On January 14, 1992, Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration Chair Larry
W. Esposito sent the following letter to Dr. Wesley T. Huntress, Jr., director of
NASA's Solar System Exploration Division.
At the September 26, 1991, meeting between the Space Studies Board committee
chairs and NASA division managers, you requested that the Committee on
Planetary and Lunar Exploration (COMPLEX) review the Solar System Exploration
Division's 1991 strategic plan. The committee conducted that review at its October
28-29 meeting.
COMPLEX finds this plan to be clearly written, well articulated, scientifically rich,
and broadly consistent with the recommended strategies of the Space Studies
Board, where they exist. With regard to the exploration of the outer planets,
however, COMPLEX has not yet established science strategies for the study of
Neptune and Pluto. When the committee's last strategy for the outer planets was
published in 1986, 1 too little was known about these planets to give reasoned
advice. Therefore, the committee cannot comment on the congruence with
previous recommendations in this area. Nevertheless, COMPLEX is now beginning
a cross-cutting study to devise an integrated strategy for all planetary exploration
and to recommend priorities for activities in the next decade. You can be assured
that the merits of the study of Neptune and Pluto will receive significant discussion.
COMPLEX endorses the prominent emphasis given in the strategic plan to
research and analysis as part of a program for planetary exploration. This
emphasis is entirely consistent with the committee's past recommendations, 2 and
we support your efforts to protect this important element.
COMPLEX has read with interest your preliminary description of the new Discovery
Program for rapid, inexpensive missions. As noted in previous COMPLEX reports,
the committee strongly endorses this philosophy. 3 COMPLEX anticipates
reviewing your plans for implementing this new line of missions when the program
reaches a sufficient level of definition.
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1. SSB, A Strategy for Exploration of the Outer Planets: 1986-1996, National
Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 1986.
2. SSB, Assessment of Solar System Exploration Program 1991, National
Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 1991, p. 31.
3. Ibid., pp. 30-31.
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