Grading NASA's Solar System Exploration Program A Midterm Report (2008) / Chapter Skim
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FIGURE 1.1 NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will fly past the outermost planet in the solar system, Pluto, in 2015.
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and in preparation for the next survey effort, Congress asked NASA to engage the community through the NRC's Space Studies Board in assessing progress toward the scientific and mission goals recommended in the decadal survey and in a similar NRC report on the National Research Council, An Integrated Strategy for the Planetary Sciences: 1995-2010, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 1994. National Research Council, New Frontiers in the Solar System: An Integrated Exploration Strategy, The National Academies Press, Wash ington, D.C., 2003.
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The first of these assessments, A Performance Assessment of NASA's Astrophysics Program (The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C., 2007) , prepared jointly by the National Research Council's Space Studies Board and Board on Physics and Astronomy, was delivered to NASA in February 2007.
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Juno 9% 9% New Horizons & Program Mgt 2% FIGURE 1.2 Breakdown of the NASA Planetary Science Division budget for fiscal year 2008. NOTE: Acronyms are spelled out in Appendix E
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SOURCE: NASA. THE MIDTERM REPORT To assess the current state of solar system science and exploration, the Committee on Assessing the Solar System Exploration Program examined each of the recommendations in the decadal survey and the Mars Architecture report and assigned both a grade and a trend arrow to the NASA effort associated with each.
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of missions previously approved and initiated. This cost growth has had the effect of necessitating reduced investments in research and data analysis and in technology development -- both of which help to characterize and reduce (or "retire," in agency parlance) risk for future missions as well as bolster the future vitality and productivity of the solar system scientific community.
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