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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 and 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 AdvancedResearchProjectsAgency;torepresenttheAcademy-ResearchCouncilcomplexinourinternationalrelations inthisfieldonbehalfofAmericanscienceandscientists;toseekwaystostimulateneededresearch;topromotenecessary 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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The Board also has a regular practice of exchanging observers with the European Space Science Committee (ESSC) , an entity of the European Science Foundation, and on occasion conducts informal information exchange sessions with national entities such as Japan and China within COSPAR scientific assemblies.
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The Executive Committee meets annually for a session on assessment of SSB operations and future planning. Standing Committees Standing discipline committees are the means by which the Board conducts its oversight of space research disciplines.
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Ad Hoc X Review of NASA Plans for the International Space Station (prepublication) Ad Hoc X SOMD Review of Progress in Astronomy and Astrophysics Toward the Decadal Vision: Letter Report CAA X X Science in NASA's Vision for Space Exploration SSB X X Space Studies Board Annual Report -- 2004 SSB All xx aOversight committee or board Ad Hoc ad hoc committee CAA Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics CES Committee on Earth Studies COEL Committee on the Origins and Evolution of Life SSB Space Studies Board bPrincipal agency audience SMD NASA Science Mission Directorate ESMD NASA Exploration Systems Mission Directorate SOMD NASA Space Operations Mission Directorate NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NSF National Science Foundation Academies to bear in preparing advice for the government.
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Figure 1.3 summarizes the principal federal agency audiences to which SSB reports were directed from 1991 through 2005. Reports on NASA-wide issues were addressed to multiple NASA offices or the whole agency; reports on SMD issues, to the Science Mission Directorate; and reports on ESMD issues, to the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate.
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, LANL, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Space Telescope Science Institute, Applied Physics Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Naval Research Laboratory)
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Copies of reports are routinely provided to key executive branch officials, members and staffs of relevant congressional committees, and members of other interested NRC and federal advisory bodies. Members of the press are notified about the release of each new report, and the Board maintains a substantial mailing list for distribution of reports to members of the space research community.
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