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1. Charter and Organization of the Board
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... The Space Science Board and its successor, the Space Studies Board, have provided expert external and independent scientific and programmatic advice to NASA on a continuous basis from NASA's inception until the present. The fundamental charter of the Board today remains that defined by National Academy of Sciences President Detlev W
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... Ad hoc organizational arrangements address agency requests for broader space policy or organizational guidance. Other special agency requests that require responses synchronized with the federal budget cycle are relayed to standing committees for action or are taken up by ad hoc task groups.
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... The Board is constituted in such a way as to include its standing committee chairs as members; other Board members serve on internal committees or perform Standing Cc committees | 1 Committee on Space Biology and Medicine ~ Representative ~ Space Studies Board I to COSPAR l Executive | l Committee l Committee on Committee on M icrogravity Earth Research Stud ies National Academy of Public Administration Ad hoc Task Groups Space Station Earth Science Research Missions Lit ~ I I I Operations I I Committee on Solar and Space Physics Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration Committee on International Space Programs Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics Committee on Origins and Evolution of Life Community Assessment and Science Strategy Availability and Usefulness of NASA's Space Mission Data Solar System Exploration Strategy Robotic Precursors to HEDS at Mars Board on Atmospheric Board on Sciences and Climate Earth Sciences ' and Resources L _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _. Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board FIGURE 1.1 Organization of the Space Studies Board and its committees and task groups.
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... Each discipline committee is composed of about a dozen specialists, appointed to represent the broad sweep of research areas within the discipline. In addition to developing long-range research strategies and formal program and progress assessments in terms of these strategies, the standing committees sometimes organize ad hoc studies and provide oversight of the task groups created to conduct such studies.
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... The Space Studies Board has been engaged in many such multiunit collaborations, and the increasingly interdisciplinary, multidimensional character of contemporary science and technology is likely to lead to more cross-NRC activities. This approach to projects has the potential to bring more of the full capability of the National Academies to bear in preparing advice for the government.
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