Space Studies Board Annual Report 2003 (2004) / Chapter Skim
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1 Charter and Organization of the Board
1 Charter and Organization of the Board
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Berkner, first chair of the Board, on June 26, 1958: We have talked of the main task of the Board in three parts the immediate program, the long-range program, and the international aspects of both. In all three we shall look to the Board to be the focus of the interests end responsibilities of the Academy-Research Council in space science; to establish necessary relationships with civilian science and with governmental science activities, particularly the proposed new space agency, the National Science Foundation, and the Advanced Research Projects Agency; to represent the Academy-Research Council complex in our international relations in this field on behalf of American science and scientists; to seek ways to stimulate needed research; to promote necessary coordination of scientific effort; and to provide such advice and recommendations to appropriate individuals and agencies with regard to space science as may in the Board's judgment be desirable.
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An internal executive committee composed of seven at-large members of the Board meets at least once a year and may convene via conference call at other times to plan for SSB activities and to advise the chair between meetings. All projects proposed to be conducted by standing committees or ad hoc task groups must first be reviewed and approved by the Board or its executive committee, and the Board monitors the progress of the projects throughout the course of the studies.
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u.s. Representative to COSPAR Space Stuclies Boarcl Executive Committee Standing Committees Task Group on Research on the International Space Station Ad Hoc Task Groups Extended Pl-Led Earth Earth Observing Science Missions Missions Solar and Space Physics Survey Heliospheric Physics Workshop Preventing the Forward Contamination of Mars ~ ,.,.,.' on Space on C°momnittee Solar and Biology Microgravity Earth Space and Research Studies Physics Medicine l l 1 Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration 1 Space Science Review Earth Science Strategy Review Space Applications and Commercialization FIGURE 1.1 Organization of the Space Studies Board and its committees and task groups.
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The Task Group on Exploring Organic Environments in the Solar System, COEL Committee on the Astrophysical Context of Life, and Committee on Environmental Satellite Data Utilization continued their work in 2003. The CES Committee on Extended Earth Observing Missions, CSSP Heliospheric Physics Workshop Committee, SSB/ ASEB Space Policy Workshop Committee, SSB Space Science Strategy Review Committee, Earth Science Strategy Review Committee, and Committee on Preventing the Forward Contamination of Mars were all established during 2003.
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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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