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2. Activities and Membership
2. Activities and Membership
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On the annual budget front, members of the space research community could not help but react enthusiastically to news about the administration's FY2001 budget proposals. Overall federal R&D budgets were slated for a 7% increase, with NASA, NSF, and NOAA looking at requests for growth over FY2000 of 6%, 17%, and 19%, 6
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NASA Associate Administrators Edward Weller, Arnauld Nicogossian, and Ghassem Asrar and NOAA Assistant Administrator Gregory Withee also presented information on the budget and about their specific programs. The Board heard a presentation from NASA Associate Administrator Joseph Rothenberg on the International Space Station and the Human Exploration and Development for Space Enterprise.
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Members of the SSB, its committees and staff, and colleagues across the space research community share an enormous debt of gratitude to Claude Canizares for his solid leadership expert judgments and tireless service as chair of the SSB. ’, ~ ~.' 0 , The Space Studies Board held its 131st meeting in Washington, D.C., on June 16-18.
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Sharon Hays of the House Science Committee staff shared her views about important issues and directions for space research as seen from Capitol Hill. The Board heard from Dennis Smith of Marshall Space Flight Center about NASA's Integrated Space Transportation Plan.
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He served again from 1986 to 1988, and then he was a member of the Space Studies Board from 1995 until the Board's 40th anniversary in 1998. During his career he was a major leader in cosmic-ray physics, a principal investigator on more than 30 space missions, a mentor to a remarkable number of contemporary leaders in space research, and a respected advisor on science policy issues.
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Examples of the latter include uncertainties about the fate of such planetary science missions as the Europa Orbiter and Pluto-Kuiper Express and space astronomy missions such as the Space Interferometry Mission. For the Space Studies Board, 2000 saw the largest number of study reports published in the Board' s history12 full-length reports and 6 letter reports.
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Implementation TG CES CES Microgravity Research in Support of Technologies CMGR for the Human Exploration and Development of Space and Planetary Bodies "On Scientific Assessment of Options for the COMPLEX X Disposition of the Galileo Spacecraft" Preventing the Forward Contamination of Europa TG X "Interim Assessment of Research and Data Analysis TG X in NASA's Office of Space Science" Review of NASA's Biomedical Research Program CSBM Review of NASA's Earth Science Enterprise Research TG Strategy for 2000-2010 "Review of NASA's Office of Space Science SSB X Strategic Plan 2000" "Review of Scientific Aspects of the NASA TG Triana Mission" The Role of Small Satellites in NASA and NOAA CES Earth Observation Programs "Scientific Assessment of Exploration of the Solar COMPLEX X SystemScience and Mission Strategy" Space Studies Board Annual Report-1999 X X X X SSB WH CONG.
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The first step for SSB reports is an internal review by the Board itself. When the authoring committee or task group is ready to send its draft report to review, it goes first to an ad hoc review panel composed of four to six Board members.
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"NASA-wide" reports were addressed to multiple NASA offices or the whole agency; "OES," to the Office of Earth Science; "OBPR," to the Office of Biological and Physical Research (formerly "OLMSA," Office of Life and Microgravity Sciences and Applications) ; and "OSS," to the Office of Space Science.
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16 FIGURE 2.2 Principal federal agency audiences for the 78 Space Studies Board reports published from 1996 through 2000. SSB Outreach and Dissemination 15 Enhancing outreach to a variety of interested communities and improving dissemination of Board reports was a special priority for the SSB during the year.
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As a consequence of these activities, roughly 1,800 additional SSB reports were distributed and more than 150 addresses were added to mailing lists for future SSB reports. Membership of the Space Studies Board John H
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were used by the Astronomy and Astrophysics Survey Committee in the writing of its report, Astronomy and Astrophysics in the New Millennium. During the fourth quarter, the committee met on December 5-6, in Washington, D.C.
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The meeting was devoted to two principal activities: revision of the report Quarantine and Certification of Martian Samples in response to comments made during the Space Studies Board's review of the report in early March, and presentations and discussions designed to help the committee refine the statement of task for a proposed new report on exploring organic environments in the solar system. Additional activities included presentations on the current status of NASA's planetary exploration programs, the state of the Mars exploration program in the wake of the failures of Mars Climate Orbiter and Mars Polar Lander, and the final disposition of the Galileo spacecraft.
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The third topic was the current status of R&DA funding for planetary science projects. This item was included on the committee's agenda at the request of the Space Studies Board because COMPLEX's input was required for use during a forthcoming SSB study on R&DA funding by NASA's Office of Space Science.
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Smith, Study Director Sharon Seaward, Senior Program Assistant * term ended dunng 2000 Space Studies Board Annual Report 2000 COMMITTEE ON SOLAR AND SPACE PHYSICS The Committee on Solar and Space Physics (CSSP)
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, a joint activity of the Space Studies Board and the NRC's Board on Biology, conducted its Workshop on Life Detection Techniques at the Carnegie Institution of Washington's headquarters in Washington, D.C., on April 25-26. In addition to committee members and invited presenters, 35 people registered to participate in the workshop, bringing the total attendance to approximately 70.
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The committee also completed a draft of its report on climate data processing and archive strategies for NPP and NPOESS. Members of the committee were also involved in supporting two Space Studies Board-led studies, Review of NASA's Earth Science Enterprise Research Strategy for 2000-2010, and Assessment of Mission Size Trade-offs for NASA 's Earth and Space Science Missions.
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The task, in which CSBM would play a major role, was negotiated with NASA and NAPA and with congressional staff. The task called for a two-phase study of the issues outlined in the bill language, with recommendations due within a year on the desirability of additional shuttle flights dedicated to science during the period of space station assembly.
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term ended dunng 2000 Space Studies Board Annual Report 2000 COMMITTEE ON MICROGRAVITY RESEARCH The Committee on Microgravity Research (CMGR) did not meet during the first quarter.
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In response to the Space Studies Board's interest and issues emerging from a U.S.-European-Japanese trilateral workshop on space cooperation, the committee held a panel discussion on the potential implications of U.S. export control policies for space research such as the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR)
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At the COSPAR Scientific Assembly in Warsaw on July 20, a representative of the CISP, members of the Space Studies Board, and representatives for the European Space Science Committee (ESSC) met with Chinese space scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
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Good news on the launch of the first Cluster II pair, Salsa and Samba, sounded a positive note that continued throughout the week. The assembly focused on scientific sessions in Earth sciences, microgravity and life sciences, planetary sciences, solar and space physics, fundamental physics in space, and other technical areas of space research.
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for the International Space Station delivered its report, Future Biotechnology Research on the International Space Station, to NASA on February 29. The findings and recommendations detailed in the report are aimed at helping NASA perform biotechnology research (protein crystal growth and cell science)
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Simmons, Senior Program Assistant * all terms ended during 2000 TASK GROUP ON THE REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC ASPECTS OF THE NASA TRIANA MISSION rl~he Space Studies Board, in cooperation with the Board on Earth Sciences and Resources and the Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, undertook a review of the scientific aspects of NASA's Triana mission.
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all terms ended in 2000 Space Studies Board Annual Report 2000 AD HOC COMMITTEE ON THE ASSESSMENT OF MISSION SIZE TRADE-OFFS FOR EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE MISSIONS The Ad Hoc Committee on the Assessment of Mission Size Trade-offs for Earth and Space Science Missions was created to respond to a congressionally mandated study to explore issues related to the mix of mission sizes in the NASA space and Earth science enterprises. The committee' s report was sent to external review in early January, and the report was approved and released in March.
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The strategy document, "NASA Earth Science Enterprise Research Strategy for 2000-2010," was reviewed by the ad hoc Committee to Review NASA's ESE Science Plan under the joint auspices of the Space Studies Board, the Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, the Board on Earth Sciences and Resources, the Ocean Studies Board, and the Policy Division. The committee was charged to examine (1)
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Linn, Study Director, Board on Earth Sciences and Resources Joseph K Alexander, Director, Space Studies Board Elbert W
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Smith, Study Director, Space Studies Board Christopher K Murphy, Study Director, Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology Sharon Seaward, Senior Program Assistant TASK GROUP ON THE AVAILABILITY AND USEFULNESS OF NASA'S SPACE MISSION DATA 33 During the fourth quarter, the new Task Group on the Availability and Usefulness of NASA' s Space Mission Data was established under the joint auspices of the SSB and the Board on Earth Sciences and Resources.
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