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Suggested Citation:"3 Ad Hoc Study Committees: Activities and Membership." National Research Council. 2010. Space Studies Board Annual Report 2009. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12918.
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Ad Hoc Study Committees: Activities and Membership

When a sponsor requests that the Space Studies Board (SSB) conduct a study, an ad hoc committee is established for that purpose. The committee terminates when the study is completed. These study committees are subject to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Section 15, because they provide advice and recommendations to the federal government. The SSB and/or one of its standing committees provide oversight for ad hoc study committee activities. Thirteen ad hoc committees were organized, met, or released studies during 2009. (Activities and membership are summarized below.)

In addition, one ad hoc committee produced a report in 2008 and was formally disbanded in 2009—the Committee on Science Opportunities Enabled by NASA’s Constellation System, formed under the auspices of SSB and the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (ASEB). The committee’s report, Launching Science: Science Opportunities Provided by NASA’s Constellation System, was summarized in the 2008 annual report.

ASSESSMENT OF IMPEDIMENTS TO INTERAGENCY COOPERATION ON SPACE AND EARTH SCIENCE MISSIONS

The ad hoc Committee on the Assessment of Impediments to Interagency Cooperation on Space and Earth Science Missions was formed to assess impediments, including cost growth, to the successful conduct of interagency cooperation on Earth science and space science missions; to identify lessons learned and best practices from past interagency Earth science and space science missions; and to recommend steps to help facilitate successful interagency collaborations on Earth science and space science missions.

The committee held its first meeting July 30-31 in Washington, D.C. The committee examined experiences in a number of recent multiagency programs, including National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System, Landsat, GOES-R, GLAST/Fermi, and the Joint Dark Energy Mission. Speakers at the meeting included Michael Freilich, Earth Science Division director, NASA Headquarters (HQ) (via videoconference); A. Thomas Young, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin Corp. (retired); Tom Karl and Jeff Privette, director and staff scientist, respectively, at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Climatic Data Center; Robert Winokur, technical director, oceanographer of the Navy; Anne Kinney, director, Solar System Exploration Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC); Paul Hertz, chief scientist, Science Mission Directorate, NASA HQ; Robin Staffin, director for basic research, Office of the Secretary of Defense; Kathy Turner, Office of High Energy Physics, Department of Energy; Persis Drell, director, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (via teleconference); Pam Whitney, Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee, House of Representatives Science and Technology Committee; Amy Kaminski, Office of Management and Budget; Damon Wells, Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP); Phil DeCola, OSTP; Darrel Williams and Jim Irons, NASA GSFC; Paul Menzel, University of Wisconsin (via videoconference); Colleen Hartman, George Washington University; Dana Johnson, Northrop Grumman; and Ronald Sega, Colorado State University.

Suggested Citation:"3 Ad Hoc Study Committees: Activities and Membership." National Research Council. 2010. Space Studies Board Annual Report 2009. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12918.
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The committee’s second meeting was held September 30-October 1 in Washington, D.C. Speakers at the meeting included Richard Obermann, staff director, Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee, House of Representatives Science and Technology Committee; Michael Freilich, Earth Science Division director, NASA HQ; Mary Kicza, NOAA assistant administrator for satellite and information services; and Geoffrey Pendleton, Dynetics Corporation. During closed session discussions, the committee finalized its report outline and discussed plans for completion of a short report in the Spring of 2010.

No further meetings of the full committee were held in 2009; however, a subset of the committee participated in a November 2 meeting that was held in conjunction with the November 3-4 meeting of the Space Studies Board in Irvine, California; the committee also convened via frequent teleconferences.

Membership

D. James Baker, The William J. Clinton Foundation (co-chair)

Daniel N. Baker, University of Colorado at Boulder (co-chair)

David A. Bearden, The Aerospace Corporation

Charles L. Bennett, Johns Hopkins University

Stacey Boland, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Antonio J. Busalacchi, Jr., University of Maryland, College Park

Carlos E. Del Castillo, Johns Hopkins University

Antonio L. Elias, Orbital Sciences Corporation

Margaret Finarelli, George Mason University

Todd R. La Porte, University of California, Berkeley

Margaret S. Leinen, Climate Response Fund

Scott N. Pace, George Washington University

Mark R. Schoeberl,* NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Graeme L. Stephens, Colorado State University

Annalisa L. Weigel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Michael S. Witherell, University of California, Santa Barbara

A. Thomas Young, Lockheed Martin Corporation (retired)


Arthur A. Charo, Senior Program Officer, SSB

Carmela J. Chamberlain, Administrative Coordinator, SSB

Terri Baker, Senior Program Assistant, SSB

ASSESSMENT OF NASA LABORATORY CAPABILITIES

Congress directed NASA to arrange for an independent assessment of NASA laboratory capabilities; as a result, the National Research Council’s (NRC’s) Laboratory Assessments Board, in collaboration with the SSB, formed the ad hoc Committee on Assessment of NASA Laboratory Capabilities to carry out a review of NASA’s laboratories to determine whether they are equipped and maintained at a level adequate to support NASA’s fundamental science and engineering research activities. The committee held its first meeting on September 8-9 in Washington, D.C., at which personnel from NASA Headquarters and seven NASA centers described their laboratories and associated research activities. In closed sessions, the committee laid out the guidelines for site visits to NASA centers to view firsthand the major laboratories and facilities involved in fundamental research.

The committee’s first site visit was to NASA GSFC in Greenbelt, Maryland, on September 9-10. Committee subgroups also visited Glenn Research Center on October 15-16; Langley Research Center on October 21-22; Ames Research Center (aeronautics activities only); and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) on November 9-10.

At the second full committee meeting at the National Academies’ Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center in Irvine, California, on November 11-12, agreement was reached on the overall report philosophy, and format and writing assignments were made. The committee determined that additional site visits were needed, and committee subgroups visited Ames Research Center’s space activities on December 2-3 and the Marshall Space Flight Center

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Resigned from committee August 28, 2009.

Suggested Citation:"3 Ad Hoc Study Committees: Activities and Membership." National Research Council. 2010. Space Studies Board Annual Report 2009. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12918.
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on December 10. The third and final committee meeting will be held on January 19-20, 2010, at the National Academies’ Keck Center in Washington, D.C.

Membership

John T. Best, Arnold Engineering Development Center (co-chair)

Joseph B. Reagan, Lockheed Missiles and Space Company, Inc. (retired) (co-chair)

William F. Ballhaus, Jr., The Aerospace Corporation (retired)

Peter M. Banks, Astrolabe Venture Partners

Ramon L. Chase, ANSER (Analytic Services, Inc.)

Ravi B. Deo, Northrop Grumman Corporation (retired)

Neil A. Duffie, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Michael G. Dunn, Ohio State University

Blair B. Gloss, NASA (retired)

Marvine P. Hamner, George Washington University

Wesley L. Harris, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Basil Hassan, Sandia National Laboratories

Joan Hoopes, Orbital Technologies Corporation

William E. McClintock, University of Colorado at Boulder

Edward D. McCullough, Boeing Phantom Works

Todd J. Mosher, Sierra Nevada Corporation

Eli Reshotko, Case Western Reserve University

John C. Sommerer,* Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory

James M. Tien, University of Miami

Candace E. Wark, Illinois Institute of Technology


John F. Wendt, Senior Program Officer, ASEB (study director)

James P. McGee, Director, LAB

Arul Mozhi, Senior Program Officer, LAB

Liza Hamilton, Administrative Coordinator, LAB

Eva Labre, Program Associate, LAB

ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS DECADAL SURVEY COMMITTEE

The Board on Physics and Astronomy (BPA), in cooperation with SSB, initiated the next decadal survey for astronomy and astrophysics, Astro2010, to survey the field of space- and ground-based astronomy and astrophysics, recommending priorities for the most important scientific and technical activities of the decade 2010-2020. The survey is taking place over eighteen months and comprises two overlapping phases. The first phase was mostly concerned with establishing a science program, fact-finding, and establishing a procedure for the second phase. The second phase is concerned with creating a prioritized, balanced, and executable series of research activities—that is, ground- and space-based research programs, projects, telescopes, and missions—that will define the forefront of astronomy and astrophysics for the decade 2011-2020.

The Astro2010 Survey Committee is assisted in its work by a series of nine panels addressing various topics—five Science Frontiers panels and four Program Prioritization panels. The Survey Committee will be responsible for synthesizing the panel inputs, determining priorities and recommendations, and preparing the final report which will have two volumes (a main committee report and a volume that will contain reports from the panels). The Survey Committee and panels conducted over 30 meetings throughout 2009.

Over 700 pieces of input from the community was received in the form of town hall meeting reports, white papers, position papers, and responses to requests for information. Seventeen Astro2010 town hall meetings were held across the U.S., including sessions on January 6 at the AAS meeting in Long Beach, California, and on May 4-5 at the American Physical Society meeting in Denver, Colorado.

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Resigned from committee January 18, 2010.

Suggested Citation:"3 Ad Hoc Study Committees: Activities and Membership." National Research Council. 2010. Space Studies Board Annual Report 2009. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12918.
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During the last quarter of 2009, five of the nine panel reports entered the NRC’s peer-review process. The remaining panel reports are scheduled to enter review in early 2010 and the Survey Committee plans to hold their last two (closed) meetings in January and February 2010. The Survey Committee’s report is scheduled to enter NRC review in the spring. The prepublication versions of the Survey Committee report and the panel reports are expected to be released in the summer of 2010. Further information and updates are available at http://www.nationalacademies.org/astro2010.

Survey Committee Membership

Roger D. Blandford, Stanford University (chair)

Lynne Hillenbrand, California Institute of Technology (executive officer)

Martha P. Haynes, Cornell University (co-vice chair)

John P. Huchra, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (co-vice chair)

Marcia J. Rieke, University of Arizona (co-vice chair)

Steven J. Battel, Battel Engineering

Lars Bildsten, University of California, Santa Barbara

John E. Carlstrom, University of Chicago

Debra M. Elmegreen, Vassar College

Joshua Frieman, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Fiona A. Harrison, California Institute of Technology

Timothy M. Heckman, Johns Hopkins University

Robert C. Kennicutt, Jr., University of Cambridge

Jonathan I. Lunine, University of Rome Tor Vergata

Claire E. Max, University of California, Santa Cruz

Dan McCammon, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Steven M. Ritz, SCIPP, University of California, Santa Cruz

Juri Toomre, University of Colorado, Boulder

Scott D. Tremaine, Institute for Advanced Study

Michael S. Turner, University of Chicago

Neil de Grasse Tyson, American Museum of Natural History

Paul Adrian Vanden Bout, National Radio Astronomy Observatory

A. Thomas Young, Lockheed Martin Corporation (retired)

Staff

Donald C. Shapero, Director, BPA

Michael H. Moloney, Associate Director BPA (study director)

Richard Rowberg, Associate Director, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences (DEPS)

Brant L. Sponberg, Associate Director and Senior Program Officer, SSB

Robert L. Riemer, Senior Program Officer, BPA

Brian D. Dewhurst, Program Officer, ASEB (until August 2009)

James Lancaster, Program Officer, BPA (from April 2009)

David Lang, Program Officer, BPA

Teri Thorowgood, Administrative Coordinator, BPA (from December 2009)

Carmela J. Chamberlain, Administrative Coordinator, SSB

Caryn Knutsen, Research Associate, BPA

LaVita Coates-Fogle, Senior Program Assistant, BPA (until October 2009)

Beth Dolan, Financial Associate, DEPS

Panel on Cosmology and Fundamental Physics Membership

David Spergel, Princeton University (chair)

David Weinberg, Ohio State University (vice chair)

Suggested Citation:"3 Ad Hoc Study Committees: Activities and Membership." National Research Council. 2010. Space Studies Board Annual Report 2009. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12918.
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Rachel Bean, Cornell University

Neil Cornish, Montana State University

Jonathan Feng, University of California at Irvine

Alex Filippenko, University of California, Berkeley

Wick Haxton, NAS, University of Washington

Marc Kamionkowski, California Institute of Technology

Lisa Randall, Harvard University

Eun-Suk Seo, University of Maryland

David Tytler, University of California, San Diego

Clifford Will, Washington University

Panel on Planetary Systems and Star Formation Membership

Lee Hartmann, University of Michigan (chair)

Hector Arce, Yale University

Claire Chandler, National Radio Astronomy Observatory

David Charbonneau, Harvard University

Eugene Chiang, University of California, Berkeley

Suzan Edwards, Smith College

Eric Herbst, Ohio State University

David C. Jewitt, University of Hawaii

James P. Lloyd, Cornell University

Eve C. Ostriker, University of Maryland

David Stevenson, California Institute of Technology

Jonathan Tan, University of Florida

Daniel M. Watson, University of Rochester

Panel on Stars and Stellar Evolution Membership

Roger Chevalier, University of Virginia (chair)

Robert Kirshner, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (vice chair)

Deepto Chakrabarty, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Suzanne Hawley, University of Washington

Jeffrey Kuhn, University of Hawaii

Stanley Owocki, University of Delaware

Marc Pinsonneault, Ohio State University

Eliot Quataert, University of California, Berkeley

Scott Ransom, National Radio Astronomy Observatory

Hendrik Schatz, Michigan State University

Lee Anne Willson, Iowa State University

Stanford Woosley, University of California, Santa Cruz

Panel on Galactic Neighborhood Membership

Michael Shull, University of Colorado (chair)

Leo Blitz, University of California, Berkeley

Julianne Dalcanton, University of Washington

Bruce Draine, Princeton University

Robert Fesen, Dartmouth University

Karl Gebhardt, University of Texas

Juna Kollmeier, Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington

Crystal Martin, University of California, Santa Barbara

Jason Tumlinson, Space Telescope Science Institute

Suggested Citation:"3 Ad Hoc Study Committees: Activities and Membership." National Research Council. 2010. Space Studies Board Annual Report 2009. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12918.
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Daniel Wang, University of Massachusetts

Dennis Zaritsky, University of Arizona

Stephen Zepf, Michigan State University

Panel on Galaxies Across Cosmic Time Membership

Meg Urry, Yale University (chair)

Mitchell Begelman, University of Colorado (vice chair)

Andrew Baker, Rutgers University

Neta Bahcall, Princeton University

Romeel Davé, University of Arizona

Tiziana di Matteo, Carnegie Mellon University

Henric Krawczynski, Washington University

Joseph Mohr, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Richard Mushotzky, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Chris Reynolds, University of Maryland

Alice Shapley, University of California, Los Angeles

Tommaso Treu, University of California, Santa Barbara

Jaqueline van Gorkom, Columbia University

Eric Wilcots, University of Wisconsin

Panel on Radio, Millimeter and Submillimeter from the Ground Membership

Neal Evans, University of Texas (chair)

James M. Moran, Harvard University (vice chair)

Crystal Brogan, National Radio Astronomy Observatory

Aaron Evans, University of Virginia

Sarah Gibson, National Center for Atmospheric Research High Altitude Observatory

Jason Glenn, University of Colorado

Nicholas Gnedin, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Cornelia C. Lang, University of Iowa

Miguel Morales, University of Washington

Maura McLaughlin, West Virginia University

Lyman A. Page, Jr., Princeton University

Jean Turner, University of California, Los Angeles

David J. Wilner, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

Panel on Optical and Infrared Astronomy from the Ground Membership

Patrick S. Osmer, Ohio State University (chair)

Michael Skrutskie, University of Virginia (vice chair)

Charles Bailyn, Yale University

Betsy Barton, University of California, Irvine

Todd Boroson, National Optical Astronomy Observatory

Daniel Eisenstein, University of Arizona

Andrea Ghez, University of California, Los Angeles

J. Todd Hoeksema, Stanford University

Robert Kirshner, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Bruce Macintosh, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Piero Madau, University of California, Santa Cruz

John Monnier, University of Michigan

Iain Neill Reid, Space Telescope Science Institute

Charles E. Woodward, University of Minnesota

Suggested Citation:"3 Ad Hoc Study Committees: Activities and Membership." National Research Council. 2010. Space Studies Board Annual Report 2009. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12918.
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Panel on Electromagnetic Observations from Space Membership

Alan Dressler, Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington (chair)

Michael Bay, Bay Engineering Innovations

Alan Boss, Carnegie Institution of Washington

Mark Devlin, University of Pennsylvania

Megan Donahue, Michigan State University

Brenna Flaugher, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Tom Greene, NASA Ames Research Center

Puragra (Raja) GuhaThakurta, University of California Observatories/Lick Observatory

Michael Hauser, Space Telescope Science Institute

Harold McAlister, Georgia State University

Peter Michelson, Stanford University

Ben Oppenheimer, American Museum of Natural History

Frits Paerels, Columbia University

Adam Reiss, Johns Hopkins University

George Rieke, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona

Paul Schechter, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Todd Tripp, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Panel on Particle Astrophysics and Gravitation Membership

Jacqueline Hewitt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (chair)

Eric Adelberger, University of Washington

Andreas Albrecht, University of California, Davis

Elena Aprile, Columbia University

Jonathan Arons, University of California, Berkeley

Barry Barish, California Institute of Technology

Joan Centrella, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Douglas Finkbeiner, Harvard University

Kathy Flanagan, Space Telescope Science Institute

Gabriela Gonzalez, Louisiana State University

Jim Hartle, University of California, Santa Barbara

Steve Kahn, Stanford University

Jeremy Kasdin, Princeton University

Teresa Montaruli, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Angela Olinto, University of Chicago

Rene Ong, University of California, Los Angeles

Helen Quinn, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

COST GROWTH IN NASA EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE MISSIONS

The ad hoc Committee on Cost Growth in NASA Earth and Space Science Missions was formed to review existing cost growth studies related to NASA space and Earth science missions and identify their key causes of cost growth and strategies for mitigating cost growth; assess whether those key causes remain applicable in the current environment and identifying any new major causes; and evaluate the effectiveness of current and planned NASA cost growth mitigation strategies and, as appropriate, recommend new strategies to ensure frequent mission opportunities.

The committee’s first meeting, on September 1-2 in Washington, D.C., included discussions with NASA staff on past assessments of cost and schedule growth of NASA space and Earth science missions and committee deliberations on the current applicability of historic causes of cost and schedule growth and past strategies to deal with this problem. The second meeting, on October 14-16 at JPL in Pasadena, California, included discussions with personnel from NASA Headquarters, JPL, GSFC, the U.S. Air Force, the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, and industry regarding the causes of cost and schedule growth and possible approaches for improvement.

Suggested Citation:"3 Ad Hoc Study Committees: Activities and Membership." National Research Council. 2010. Space Studies Board Annual Report 2009. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12918.
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At its third meeting on December 3-4 in Washington, D.C., the committee focused on reviewing the report outline, developing consensus on findings and recommendations, and assigning draft sections of the report. Based on the progress at this meeting, the committee elected to schedule a fourth and final writing meeting for January 11-12, 2010, in Boulder, Colorado. The committee plans to have its draft report submitted for NRC review by late spring 2010; with delivery to NASA of a prepublication version expected in late May 2010. The final printed report is expected to be completed and released in July 2010.

Membership

Ronald M. Sega, Colorado State University Research Foundation (chair)

Vassilis Angelopoulos, University of California, Berkeley

Robert E. Bitten,* The Aerospace Corporation

Allan V. Burman, Jefferson Consulting Group, LLC

Olivier L. de Weck, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Robert E. Deemer, Regis University

Larry W. Esposito, University of Colorado, Boulder

Joseph Fuller, Jr., Futron Corporation

Joseph W. Hamaker, Science Applications International Corporation

Victoria E. Hamilton, Southwest Research Institute

John M. Klineberg, Loral Space and Communications, Ltd. (retired)

Robert P. Lin,* University of California, Berkeley

Bruce D. Marcus, TRW Inc. (retired)

Emery I. Reeves, Independent Consultant

William F. Townsend, Independent Consultant


Alan C. Angleman, Senior Program Officer, ASEB (study director)

Andrea M. Rebholz, Program Associate, ASEB

DECADAL SURVEY ON BIOLOGICAL AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES IN SPACE

The Decadal Survey on Biological and Physical Sciences in Space was formed under the auspieces of the SSB and the ASEB in response to a congressional request for a study to establish priorities and provide recommendations for life and physical sciences space research, including research that will enable exploration missions in microgravity and partial gravity for the 2010-2020 decade.

The decadal survey will define research areas, recommend a research portfolio and a timeline for conducting that research, identify facility and platform requirements as appropriate, provide rationales for suggested program elements, define dependencies between research objectives, identify terrestrial benefits, and specify whether the research product directly enables exploration or produces fundamental new knowledge. These areas will be categorized as either those that are required to enable exploration missions or those that are enabled or facilitated because of exploration missions.

The steering committee held its first meeting on May 6-8 at the National Academy of Sciences Building in Washington, D.C. The first day and a half was devoted to discussions of the study goals with NASA and congressional staffers and obtaining necessary background briefings on topics such as NASA exploration capability needs and the current research program structure and content. During the closed portion of the meeting, the committee concentrated its efforts on determining how it would structure its seven focus panels and began the process of identifying appropriate expertise and membership for each panel. Work on panel development continued following the meeting, through both frequent internal discussions and consultations with members of the community.

The steering committee held its second meeting on June 29-July 1 at the National Academies’ Keck Center in Washington, D.C. Additional briefings related to the various past research solicitation and management approaches used by NASA were obtained, however most of the meeting was devoted to detailed planning for the work of the committee and its panels. Following the meeting, the steering committee continued to work on the member-

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Resigned from committee in September 2009.

Suggested Citation:"3 Ad Hoc Study Committees: Activities and Membership." National Research Council. 2010. Space Studies Board Annual Report 2009. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12918.
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appointment process for the seven study panels, planning for several town halls, solicitation of white papers through numerous announcements sent to various lists and organizations relevant to the NASA biological and physical sciences program, and the organization of a joint first meeting for the panels.

The joint meeting of the panels was held on August 19-21 at the National Academy of Sciences Building in Washington, D.C., and six of the seven panels participated. The panels attending the meeting were the Plant and Microbial Biology Panel, the Animal and Human Biology Panel, the Human Behavior and Mental Health Panel, the Applied Physical Sciences Panel, the Integrative and Translational Research for the Human System Panel, and the Translation to Space Exploration Systems Panel. Approximately 70 attendees were given an overview of the study by steering committee co-chair Betsy Cantwell and heard detailed background briefings on NASA’s exploration needs, research capabilities, and program status and history. Panels then met separately in closed sessions where they discussed the task and the various information resources that were, or would become, available during the study. Each panel developed preliminary strategies for addressing their task items, chapter outlines, and writing assignments. The seventh panel, the Fundamental Physical Sciences Panel, was unable to attend the joint meeting, but met on September 8-9 with an agenda and activities similar to those of the joint meeting.

The steering committee met on October 14-16, in Washington, D.C., to hear presentations on the European and Japanese microgravity programs, as well as presentations on research opportunities that could potentially become available on commercial spacecraft. Most of the meeting was reserved for closed session discussions on the status of efforts to recruit community input, review of materials drafted by the panels, and report development and planning activities. A teleconference call was held with the seven panel chairs for this study during the meeting. Following the meeting, the steering committee continued to hold frequent joint teleconference calls with individual panels in order to provide input and guidance.

After a broad canvassing of the relevant communities, the solicitation of white papers for this study was completed in mid-October, with the receipt of about 150 papers from the community (many with multiple authors). The white papers covered a wide number of disciplines relevant to the study and were subsequently reviewed by each of the seven study panels and the steering committee. Four town halls were held in conjunction with scientific society or technical meetings during this period—meetings of the American Society for Gravitational and Space Biology, the Lunar Exploration Analysis Group, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. At each of these meetings, steering committee members presented information on the study and led discussions aimed at soliciting input on important research and programmatic issues.

Nine additional meetings of the various study panels were held prior to the end of 2009 in order to gather and assess inputs from a wide range of sources, including invited presentations, and to continue development of chapters and recommendations for the report. In addition to regular meetings, the panels have continued to hold teleconference calls in order to address report development issues. Regular meetings of the panels will be completed by the end of January 2010.

Updates and detailed information on the study are provided on the public Web site at http://sites.nationalacademies.org/SSB/CurrentProjects/ssb_050845.

Steering Committee Membership

Elizabeth R. Cantwell, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (co-chair)

Wendy Kohrt, University of Colorado, Denver (co-chair)

Lars Berglund, University of California, Davis

Nicholas P. Bigelow, University of Rochester

Leonard H. Caveny, Independent Consultant

Vijay K. Dhir, University of California, Los Angeles

Joel Dimsdale, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine

Nikolaos A. Gatsonis, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Simon Gilroy, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Benjamin D. Levine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas

Kathryn V. Logan, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Philippa Marrack, National Jewish Health

Gabor A. Somorjai, University of California, Berkeley

Charles M. Tipton, University of Arizona

Suggested Citation:"3 Ad Hoc Study Committees: Activities and Membership." National Research Council. 2010. Space Studies Board Annual Report 2009. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12918.
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Jose L. Torero, University of Edinburgh

Robert Wegeng, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Gayle E. Woloschak, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine


Sandra J. Graham, Senior Program Officer, SSB (study director)

Alan C. Angleman, Senior Program Officer,* ASEB

Ian W. Pryke, Senior Program Officer, SSB

Robert L. Riemer, Senior Program Officer,* BPA

Maureen Mellody, Program Officer,* ASEB

Regina North, Consultant

Lewis Groswald, Research Associate, SSB

Danielle Johnson,* Senior Program Assistant, Center for Economic, Governance, and International Studies

Laura Toth,* Senior Program Assistant, National Materials Advisory Board

Linda M. Walker, Senior Program Assistant, SSB

Eric Whittaker,* Senior Program Assistant, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board

Animal and Human Biology Panel Membership

Kenneth M. Baldwin, University of California, Irvine (chair)

Francois M. Abboud, University of Iowa, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine

Peter R. Cavanagh, University of Washington

V. Reggie Edgerton, University of California, Los Angeles

Donna Murasko, Drexel University

John T. Potts, Jr., Massachusetts General Hospital

April E. Ronca, Wake Forest University School of Medicine

Charles M. Tipton, University of Arizona

Charles H. Turner, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis

John B. West, University of California, San Diego

Applied Physical Sciences Panel Membership

Peter W. Voorhees, Northwestern University (chair)

Nikolaos A. Gatsonis, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Richard T. Lahey, Jr., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Richard M. Lueptow, Northwestern University

John J. Moore, Colorado School of Mines

Elaine S. Oran, Naval Research Laboratory

Amy L. Rechenmacher, University of Southern California

James T’ien, Case Western Reserve University

Mark M. Weislogel, Portland State University

Fundamental Physics Panel Membership

Robert V. Duncan, University of Missouri (chair)

Nicholas P. Bigelow, University of Rochester

Paul M. Chaikin, New York University

Ronald G. Larson, University of Michigan

W. Carl Lineberger, University of Colorado, Boulder

Ronald Walsworth, Harvard University

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Staff from other NRC boards who are assisting with the survey.

Suggested Citation:"3 Ad Hoc Study Committees: Activities and Membership." National Research Council. 2010. Space Studies Board Annual Report 2009. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12918.
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Human Behavior and Mental Health Panel Membership

Thomas J. Balkin, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (chair)

Joel E. Dimsdale, University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine

Nick Kanas, University of California, San Francisco

Gloria Leon, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

Lawrence A. Palinkas, University of California, San Diego

Mriganka Sur, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Integrative and Translational Research for the Human System Panel Membership

James A. Pawelczyk, Pennsylvania State University (chair)

Alan R. Hargens, University of California, San Diego

Robert L. Helmreich, University of Texas, Austin (retired)

Joanne R. Lupton, Texas A&M University, College Station

Charles M. Oman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

David Robertson, Vanderbilt University

Suzanne M. Schneider, University of New Mexico

Gayle E. Woloschak, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Plant and Microbial Biology Panel Membership

Terri L. Lomax, North Carolina State University (chair)

Paul Blount, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas

Robert J. Ferl, University of Florida

Simon Gilroy, University of Wisconsin, Madison

E. Peter Greenberg, University of Washington School of Medicine

Translation to Space Exploration Systems Panel Membership

James P. Bagian, Veterans Health Administration (chair)

Frederick R. Best, Texas A&M University, College Station

Leonard H. Caveny, Independent Consultant

Michael B. Duke, Colorado School of Mines (retired)

John P. Kizito, North Carolina A&T State University

David Y. Kusnierkiewicz, Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory

E. Thomas Mahefkey, Jr., Heat Transfer Technology Consultants

Dava J. Newman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Richard J. Roby, Combustion Science and Engineering, Inc.

Guillermo Trotti, Trotti and Associates, Inc.

Alan Wilhite, Georgia Institute of Technology

HELIOPHYSICS PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT

The ad hoc Heliophysics Performance Assessment Committee was formed to study the alignment of NASA’s Heliophysics Science Division with previous NRC advice—primarily the 2003 solar and space physics decadal survey, The Sun to the Earth—and Beyond: A Decadal Research Strategy in Solar and Space Physics. In particular, the study focused on how well NASA’s current program addresses the strategies, goals, and priorities outlined in the decadal survey and other relevant NRC reports; NASA’s progress toward realizing these strategies, goals and priorities; and any actions that could be taken to optimize the science value of the program in the context of current and forecasted resources available. The study did not revisit or alter the scientific priorities or mission recommendations provided in the 2003 decadal survey, but provides guidance about implementing the recommended mission portfolio in preparation for the next decadal survey.

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The committee’s report, A Performance Assessment of NASA’s Heliophysics Program, was delivered in pre-publication form on February 17 and printed in March. The report’s Summary is reprinted in Chapter 5.

Membership*

Stephen A. Fuselier, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center (co-chair)

Roderick A. Heelis, University of Texas at Dallas (co-chair)

Thomas Berger, Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory

George Gloeckler,** University of Maryland, College Park

Jack R. Jokipii, University of Arizona

Krishan Khurana, University of California, Los Angeles

Dana Warfield Longcope, Montana State University

Gang Lu, High Altitude Observatory

Kristina A. Lynch, Dartmouth College

Frank B. McDonald, University of Maryland, College Park

Michael Mendillo, Boston University

Robert E. Palmer, Independent Consultant

Gary P. Zank, University of California, Riverside


Brant L. Sponberg, Associate Director and Senior Program Officer, SSB (study director)

Arthur A. Charo, Senior Program Officer, SSB

Carmela J. Chamberlain, Administrative Coordinator, SSB

NASA’S SUBORBITAL RESEARCH CAPABILITIES

The ad hoc Committee on NASA’s Suborbital Research Capabilities conducted a study of suborbital flight activities, including the use of sounding rockets, aircraft (including the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy), balloons, and suborbital reusable launch vehicles, as well as opportunities for research, training, and education as set out in the 2007 report Building a Better NASA Workforce: Meeting the Workforce Needs for the National Vision for Space Exploration.

The committee met on May 20-21, 2009, at the National Academies’ Keck Center in Washington, D.C., and the meeting included briefings on the NASA suborbital program (NASA staff); NASA workforce issues (David Black, co-chair of the NRC committee that authored Building a Better NASA Workforce); and NASA mission-enabling issues (Lennard Fisk, chair of the Committee on the Role and Scope of Mission-Enabling Activities in NASA’s Space and Earth Science Missions, and staff officer Joseph Alexander). At its second meeting, on August 19-20, 2009, at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics in Boulder, Colorado, the committee heard presentations from several researchers who conduct research in the suborbital realm. At the committee’s third and final meeting on September 23-25, 2009, at the National Academies’ Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center in Irvine, California, the committee heard from several researchers on their suborbital work and received a second briefing from Lennard Fisk and Joseph Alexander.

A prepublication version of the report, Revitalizing NASA’s Suborbital Program: Advancing Science, Driving Innovation, and Developing Workforce, was delivered to NASA on February 4, 2010. Briefings for congressional staff and NASA management were well received. The final, printed version of the report is expected to be released in mid-March 2010.

Membership

Steven R. Bohlen, Texas A&M University (chair)

Kristin A. Blais, The Boeing Company

Mark A. Brosmer, The Aerospace Corporation

*

All terms ended in June 2009.

**

Resigned from committee in 2008.

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Estelle Condon, NASA Ames Research Center (retired)

Christine Foreman, Montana State University

Adam P.-H. Huang, University of Arkansas

Michael J. Kurylo III, Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology Center

Robert P. Lin, University of California, Berkeley

Franklin D. Martin, Martin Consulting Inc.

R. Bruce Partridge, Haverford College

Robert Pincus, RP Consultants

W. Thomas Vestrand, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Erik Wilkinson, Southwest Research Institute


Robert L. Riemer, Senior Program Officer, BPA (study director)

Dwayne A. Day, Program Officer, SSB

Linda M. Walker, Senior Project Assistant, SSB

NEAR-EARTH OBJECT SURVEYS AND HAZARD MITIGATION STRATEGIES

An ad hoc Committee on Near-Earth Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies was formed under the auspices of the SSB and ASEB to undertake a two-phase study to review the two NASA reports, 2006 Near-Earth Object Survey and Detection Study and Near-Earth Object Survey and Deflection Analysis of Alternatives: Report to Congress, and other relevant literature and provide recommendations that will address two major issues: (1) determining the best approach to completing the near-Earth object (NEO) census required by Congress to identify potentially hazardous NEOs larger than 140 meters in diameter by the year 2020 and (2) determining the optimal approach to developing a deflection strategy and ensuring that it includes a significant international effort. Both tasks will include an assessment of the costs of various alternatives, using independent cost estimating. Task 1 was addressed by the Survey/Detection Panel, and Task 2 was addressed by the Mitigation Panel.

The steering group held its first meeting at the National Academies’ Keck Center on December 9-11, 2008. In 2009, the steering group met on May 18-20 at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico; on August 10-11 in Woods Hole, Massachusetts; and on September 1-2 in Irvine, California.

The Survey/Detection Panel met on January 28-30 at the National Academies’ Keck Center in Washington, D.C., on April 20-22 at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory in Tucson, Arizona, where it visited the Catalina Sky Survey Telescope. On April 29-30, the chair of the Survey/Detection Panel and a member of the Mitigation Panel visited the Pan-STARRS-1 telescope facility on Maui. The Survey/Detection Panel met on July 13-15 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, for report writing.

The Mitigation Panel met on March 30-April 1 at the National Academies’ Keck Center in Washington, D.C.; on June 23-25 in Woods Hole, Massachusetts; and on July 29-31 in Boulder, Colorado, for report writing.

The committee’s interim report, Near-Earth Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies: Interim Report, was released in early August. The committee’s final report, Defending Planet Earth: Near-Earth Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies: Final Report, entered NRC review in fall 2009 and the prepublication version was released to the public on January 22, 2010. The interim report’s Summary is reprinted in Chapter 5.

Steering Group Membership

Irwin I. Shapiro, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (chair)

Michael A’Hearn, University of Maryland, College Park (vice chair)

Faith Vilas, MMT Observatory at Mt. Hopkins, Arizona (vice chair)

Andrew F. Cheng, Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory

Frank Culbertson, Jr., Orbital Sciences Corporation

David C. Jewitt, University of California, Los Angeles

Stephen Mackwell, Lunar and Planetary Institute

H. Jay Melosh, Purdue University

Joseph H. Rothenberg, Universal Space Network

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Dwayne A. Day, Program Officer, SSB (study director)

Paul Jackson, Associate Program Officer, ASEB (study director)

David H. Smith, Senior Program Officer, SSB

Abigail A. Sheffer, Associate Program Officer, SSB

Victoria Swisher, Research Associate, SSB (through August)

Andrea Rebholz, Program Associate, ASEB

Lewis Groswald, Research Associate, SSB

Rodney N. Howard, Senior Program Assistant, SSB

Survey/Detection Panel Membership

Faith Vilas, MMT Observatory at Mt. Hopkins, Arizona (chair)

Paul Abell, Planetary Science Institute

Robert F. Arentz, Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corporation

Lance A.M. Benner, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

William F. Bottke, Southwest Research Institute

William E. Burrows, Independent Aerospace Writer and Historian

Andrew F. Cheng, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Robert D. Culp, University of Colorado, Boulder

Yanga Fernandez, University of Central Florida

Lynne Jones, University of Washington

Stephen Mackwell, Lunar and Planetary Institute

Amy Mainzer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Gordon H. Pettengill, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (retired)

John Rice, University of California, Berkeley

Mitigation Panel Membership

Michael A’Hearn, University of Maryland, College Park (chair)

Michael J.S. Belton, National Optical Astronomy Observatories

Mark Boslough, Sandia National Laboratories

Clark R. Chapman, Southwest Research Institute

Sigrid Close, Stanford University

James A. Dator, University of Hawaii, Manoa

David S.P. Dearborn, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Keith A. Holsapple, University of Washington

David Y. Kusnierkiewicz, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Paulo Lozano, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Edward D. McCullough, Boeing (retired)

H. Jay Melosh, Purdue University

David J. Nash, Dave Nash & Associates, LLC

Daniel J. Scheeres, University of Colorado, Boulder

Sarah T. Stewart-Mukhopadhyay, Harvard University

Kathryn C. Thornton, University of Virginia

PLANETARY PROTECTION REQUIREMENTS FOR MARS SAMPLE-RETURN MISSIONS

An ad hoc Committee on Planetary Protection Requirements for Mars Sample-Return Missions was formed to review and update the 1997 NRC report Mars Sample Return: Issues and Recommendations in the light of new findings about Mars and recent advances in the biological sciences.

The committee completed all of its scheduled meetings in 2008 and completed an initial draft of its report in early December 2008. The committee spent the first 6 weeks of 2009 revising the draft report in response to comments provided by external reviewers. A prepublication version of the report was delivered to NASA in late April and the final report was printed in May 2009. The report’s Summary is reprinted in Chapter 5.

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Membership*

Jack D. Farmer, Arizona State University (chair)

James F. Bell III, Cornell University

Kathleen C. Benison, Central Michigan University

William V. Boynton, University of Arizona

Sherry L. Cady, Portland State University

F. Grant Ferris, University of Toronto

Duncan MacPherson, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Margaret S. Race, SETI Institute

Mark H. Thiemens, University of California, San Diego

Meenakshi Wadhwa, Arizona State University


David H. Smith, Senior Program Officer, SSB (study director)

Rodney N. Howard, Senior Program Assistant, SSB

PLANETARY SCIENCES DECADAL SURVEY

The Planetary Sciences Decadal Survey was established to develop a comprehensive science and mission strategy for planetary science that updates and extends the Board’s 2003 solar system exploration decadal survey, New Frontiers in the Solar System: An Integrated Exploration Strategy. The new decadal survey will broadly canvas the planetary science community to determine the current state of knowledge and then identify the most important scientific questions expected to face the community during the interval 2013-2022. This 2-year study at the request of NASA and the National Science Foundation (NSF) began in 2009 with the appointment of the steering group and various outreach activities. Steering group chair Steven Squyres led a town hall session designed to inform the scientific community of the decadal survey’s goals and schedule at the Lunar and Planetary Sciences Conference (Houston, Texas, March 25). Committee staff conducted similar outreach activities at a variety of venues including the meetings of the Venus Exploration Analysis Group (Houston, Texas, February 25), the Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group (Arlington, Virginia, March 3-4), the Outer Planets Assessment Group (Bethesda, Maryland, March 9-10), the Royal Astronomical Society (London, England, March 13), and the Curation and Analysis Team for Extraterrestrial Materials (Houston, Texas, March 28-29).

During 2009, the survey steering group met twice, on July 6-8 in Washington, D.C., and on November 16-18 in Irvine, California. The panels have held the following meetings: Giant Planets Panel, August 24-26, Washington, D.C. and October 26-28, Irvine, California; Inner Planets Panel, August 26-28, Washington, D.C., and October 26-28, Irvine, California; Mars Panel, September 9-11, Tempe, Arizona, and November 4-6, Pasadena, California; Primitive Bodies Panel, September 9-11, Washington, D.C., and October 28-30, Irvine, California; and Satellites Panel, August 24-26, Washington, D.C., and September 21-23 in Irvine, California.

Additional community outreach activities in support of the decadal survey were held at a variety of venues, including the meetings of the Outer Planets Assessment Group (Colombia, Maryland, July 14), the NASA Lunar Science Institute (Moffett Field, California, July 21-23), the Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group (Providence, Rhode Island, July 29-30), the European Planetary Science Congress (Potsdam, Germany, September 13-18), the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society (Fajardo, Puerto Rico, October 4-9), the American Geophysical Union (San Francisco, California, December 14-18), and the Lunar and PlanetarySciences Conference (The Woodlands, Texas, March 1-5, 2010).

To assist its activities, the decadal survey has commissioned mission studies to be undertaken at the Applied Physics Laboratory, Goddard Space Flight Center, and Jet Propulsion Laboratory. In a related activity, the decadal survey has engaged the services of the Aerospace Corporation to provide independent cost and technical evaluations of the highest-priority mission concepts resulting from these studies.

Committee and panel meetings and community outreach activities continued in 2010. Updates from the steering group chair to the planetary community can be found at http://sites.nationalacademies.org/SSB/SSB_054187. Presentations at these and other meetings, together with meeting summaries and archived webcasts, are available at

*

All terms expired on May 31, 2009.

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the decadal survey’s Web site at http://sites.nationalacademies.org/SSB/CurrentProjects/ssb_052412. The decadal survey is scheduled to be delivered to NASA and NSF by the end of March 2011.

Steering Group Membership

Steven W. Squyres, Cornell University (chair)

Laurence A. Soderblom, U.S. Geological Survey (vice chair)

Wendy M. Calvin, University of Nevada, Reno

Dale Cruikshank, NASA Ames Research Center

Pascale Ehrenfreund, George Washington University

G. Scott Hubbard, Stanford University

Wesley T. Huntress, Jr.,* Carnegie Institution of Washington

Margaret G. Kivelson, University of California, Los Angeles

B. Gentry Lee, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Jane Luu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lincoln Laboratory

Stephen Mackwell, Lunar and Planetary Institute

Ralph L. McNutt, Jr., Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory

Harry Y. McSween, Jr., University of Tennessee, Knoxville

George A. Paulikas,* The Aerospace Corporation (retired)

Amy Simon-Miller, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

David J. Stevenson, California Institute of Technology

A. Thomas Young, Lockheed Martin Corporation (retired)


David H. Smith, Senior Program Officer, SSB (study director)

Dwayne A. Day, Program Officer, SSB

Abigail Sheffer, Associate Program Officer, SSB

Dionna Williams, Program Associate, SSB

Lewis Groswald, Research Associate, SSB

Rodney N. Howard, Senior Program Assistant, SSB

Satellites Panel Membership

John Spencer, Southwest Research Institute (chair)

David J. Stevenson, California Institute of Technology (vice chair)

Glenn Fountain, Johns Hopkins University

Caitlin Ann Griffith, University of Arizona

Krishan Khurana, University of California, Los Angeles

Christopher P. McKay, NASA Ames Research Center

Francis Nimmo, University of California, Santa Cruz

Louise M. Prockter, Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory

Gerald Schubert, University of California, Los Angeles

Thomas R. Spilker, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Elizabeth P. Turtle, Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory

Hunter Waite, University of Michigan

Giant Planet Panel Membership

Heidi B. Hammel, Space Science Institute (chair)

Amy Simon-Miller, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (vice chair)

Reta F. Beebe, New Mexico State University

John R. Casani, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

John Clarke, Boston University

Bridgette Hesman,** National Radio Astronomy Observatory

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William B. Hubbard, University of Arizona

Mark S. Marley, NASA Ames Research Center

Philip D. Nicholson, Cornell University

R. Wayne Richie, NASA Langley Research Center (retired)

Kunio M. Sayanagi, California Institute of Technology

Inner Planets Panel Membership

Ellen R. Stofan, Proxemy Research (chair)

Stephen Mackwell, Lunar and Planetary Institute (vice chair)

Barbara A. Cohen, NASA George C. Marshall Space Flight Center

Martha S. Gilmore, Wesleyan University

Lori Glaze, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

David H. Grinspoon, Denver Museum of Nature and Science

Steven A. Hauck II, Case Western Reserve University

Ayanna M. Howard, Georgia Institute of Technology

Charles K. Shearer, University of New Mexico

Douglas S. Stetson, Space Science and Exploration Consulting Group

Edward M. Stolper, California Institute of Technology

Allan H. Treiman, Lunar and Planetary Institute

Mars Panel Membership

Philip R. Christensen, Arizona State University (chair)

Wendy M. Calvin, University of Nevada, Reno (vice chair)

Raymond E. Arvidson, Washington University

Robert D. Braun,*** Georgia Institute of Technology

Glenn E. Cunningham, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (retired)

David Des Marias, NASA Ames Research Center

Linda T. Elkins-Tanton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Francois Forget, University of Paris

John P. Grotzinger, California Institute of Technology

Penelope King, University of New Mexico

Philippe Lognonne, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris

Paul R. Mahaffy, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Lisa M. Pratt, Indiana University

Primitive Bodies Panel Membership

Joseph F. Veverka, Cornell University (chair)

Harry Y. McSween, Jr., University of Tennessee, Knoxville (vice chair)

Eric Asphaug, University of California, Santa Cruz

Michael E. Brown, California Institute of Technology

Donald E. Brownlee, University of Washington

Marc Buie, Southwest Research Institute

Timothy J. McCoy, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

Marc D. Rayman, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Edward Reynolds, Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory

Mark Sephton, Imperial College London

Jessica Sunshine, University of Maryland, College Park

Faith Vilas, MMT Observatory

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RADIOISOTOPE POWER SYSTEMS

The U.S. space program’s legendary successes include missions to circle the Earth, land on the Moon and Mars, orbit Jupiter and Saturn, and explore space beyond the limits of our solar system. Ensuring that space vehicles have adequate power presents special challenges in distant and extreme environments. Radioisotope power systems are currently the only available energy source for missions where solar power is not practical , and plutonium-238 (Pu-238 ), a nonweapons-grade material used solely by the space program, is the only practical isotope for fueling them. However, no Pu-238 has been produced in the United States since the late 1980s, and supplies are dwindling.

The ad hoc Committee on Radioisotope Power Systems was formed under the auspices of the SSB and ASEB to assess the technical readiness and programmatic balance of NASA’s radioisotope power systems technology portfolio in terms of its ability to support NASA’s near- and long-term mission plans. In addition, the study examined related public and private infrastructure and the effectiveness of other federal agencies involved in relevant research and development. The study also reviewed strategies for reestablishing domestic production of Pu-238, which serves as the fuel for radioisotope power systems.

The committee held its final committee meeting on January 12-13, 2009, at the National Academies’ Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center, in Irvine, California. The committee subsequently prepared a complete draft of its report, Radioisotope Power Systems: An Imperative for Maintaining U.S. Leadership in Space Exploration. A pre-publication version of the report was released in May 2009, followed by the printed report in July. The report’s Summary is reprinted in Chapter 5.

Radioisotope Power Systems says that the fiscal year (FY) 2010 federal budget should provide funding to the Department of Energy to reestablish production of Pu-238 as soon as possible. Accordingly, the administration’s FY 2010 and 2011 budget requests for the Department of Energy have included funds for Pu-238 production.

Membership*

William W. Hoover, Independent Consultant (co-chair)

Ralph L. McNutt, Jr., Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory (co-chair)

Douglas M. Allen, Schafer Corporation

Samim Anghaie, University of Florida

Reta F. Beebe, New Mexico State University

Warren W. Buck, University of Washington

Beverly A. Cook, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Sergio B. Guarro, The Aerospace Corporation

Roger D. Launius, Smithsonian Institution

Frank B. McDonald, University of Maryland, College Park

Alan R. Newhouse, Independent Consultant

Joseph A. Sholtis, Jr., Sholtis Engineering and Safety Consulting

Spencer R. Titley, University of Arizona

Emanuel Tward, Northrop Grumman Space Technology

Earl Wahlquist, U.S. Department of Energy (retired)


Alan C. Angleman, Senior Program Officer, ASEB (study director)

Dwayne A. Day, Program Officer, SSB

Sarah M. Capote, Program Associate, ASEB (through November 2008)

Celeste A. Naylor, Senior Program Assistant, SSB (through January 2009)

Andrea M. Rebholz, Senior Program Assistant, ASEB (from February 2009)

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Dr. Huntress resigned in November 2009 to take up an appointment on the NASA Advisory Council; Dr. Paulikas was appointed in 2010 as his replacement.

**

Now at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

***

Resigned from committee on February 8, 2010, to take an appointment at NASA Headquarters.

*

All terms expired on September 1, 2009.

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RATIONALE AND GOALS FOR THE U.S. CIVIL SPACE PROGRAM

An ad hoc Committee on Rationale and Goals for the U.S. Civil Space Program was organized under the auspices of the SSB and the ASEB, with funding support from The National Academies Presidents’ Committee, to prepare a report to advise the nation on key goals and critical issues in 21st century U.S. civil space policy.

Following information-gathering and discussion meetings in 2008, the committee met on January 13-15, at the National Academies’ Keck Center in Washington, D.C., for discussions with outside experts regarding public interests and attitudes about space exploration, alternative exploration approaches, commercial and economic aspects of space activities, and the implications of two National Academies reports, Rising Above the Gathering Storm and Beyond “Fortress America,” for the committee’s task. Following the January meeting, the committee began to organize its study report. Work on the draft report continued, including a committee teleconference on February 13 and a March 2 meeting in Washington, D.C. The committee’s report, America’s Future in Space: Aligning the Civil Space Program with National Needs, was submitted for external NRC review in April, released as a prepublication in July, and printed in September. The committee chair and both vice chairs testified at various congressional hearings where they summarized major conclusions from the report. The report’s Summary is reprinted in Chapter 5.

Membership*

Lester L. Lyles, The Lyles Group (chair)

Raymond S. Colladay, Lockheed Martin Astronautics (retired) (co-vice chair)

Lennard A. Fisk, University of Michigan (co-vice chair)

Jay Apt, Carnegie Mellon University

James B. Armor, Jr., The Armor Group, LLC

Wanda M. Austin, The Aerospace Corporation

David Baltimore, California Institute of Technology

Robert Bednarek, SES NEW SKIES

Joseph A. Burns, Cornell University

Pierre Chao, Renaissance Strategic Advisors

Kenneth S. Flamm, University of Texas, Austin

Joan Johnson-Freese, U.S. Naval War College

Paul D. Nielsen, Carnegie Mellon University

Michael S. Turner, University of Chicago

Thomas H. Vonder Haar, Colorado State University

George T. Whitesides,** National Space Society


Joseph K. Alexander, Senior Program Officer, SSB (study director)

Brian D. Dewhurst, Program Officer, ASEB (through August)

Carmela J. Chamberlain, Administrative Coordinator, SSB

Lewis Groswald, Policy Intern, SSB

Victoria Swisher, Research Assistant, SSB (through August)

ROLE AND SCOPE OF MISSION-ENABLING ACTIVITIES IN NASA’S SPACE AND EARTH SCIENCE MISSIONS

The ad hoc Committee on the Role and Scope of Mission-Enabling Activities in NASA’s Space and Earth Science Missions was formed to provide strategic advice on activities that traditionally encompass much of NASA’s research and analysis programs and that include support for theory, modeling, and data analysis; suborbital flights and complementary ground-based programs; and advanced mission and instrumentation concept studies.

The committee met on January 21-23 at the National Academies’ Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center in Irvine, California, and on March 11-13 at the National Academy of Sciences Building in Washington, D.C., to gather

*

All terms expired on December 31, 2009.

**

Resigned from committee in 2008.

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information from NASA program managers and other experts on aspects relevant to the study charge. At the March meeting the committee began to discuss approaches for responding to the study charge.

At its final meeting on May 20-23 at the National Academies’ Keck Center in Washington, D.C., the committee discussed initial findings and recommendations and began work on the study report. The draft report was submitted for external NRC review in September and approved for release in November. A prepublication version of the report, An Enabling Foundation for NASA’s Earth and Space Science Missions, was delivered to NASA and congressional offices on November 30 and was released to the public on December 4. Final printed editions of the report were disseminated in February 2010. The report’s Summary is reprinted in Chapter 5.

Membership

Lennard A. Fisk, University of Michigan (chair)

Bruce H. Margon, University of California, Santa Cruz (vice chair)

Mark R. Abbott, Oregon State University

Steven J. Battel, Battel Engineering

Yvonne C. Brill, Independent Consultant

Donald E. Brownlee, University of Washington

Richard Chapas, Battelle Eastern Science and Technology Center

Martin H. Israel, Washington University

Conilee G. Kirkpatrick, HRL Laboratories, LLC

Jennifer A. Logan, Harvard University

Robyn Millan, Dartmouth College

Richard R. Paul, Boeing Phantom Works (retired)

Guenter Riegler, NASA Ames Research Center (retired)

Mark V. Sykes, Planetary Science Institute


Joseph K. Alexander, Senior Program Officer, SSB (study director)

Victoria Swisher, Research Associate, SSB (through August)

Linda M. Walker, Senior Project Assistant, SSB

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The Space Studies Board (SSB) was established in 1958 to serve as the focus of the interests and responsibilities in space research for the National Academies. The SSB provides an independent, authoritative forum for information and advice on all aspects of space science and applications, and it serves as the focal point within the National Academies for activities on space research. It oversees advisory studies and program assessments, facilitates international research coordination, and promotes communications on space science and science policy between the research community, the federal government, and the interested public. The SSB also serves as the U.S. National Committee for the International Council for Science Committee on Space Research (COSPAR).

The present volume reviews the organization, activities, and reports of the SSB for the year 2009.

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