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2 Activities and Membership
2 Activities and Membership
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Two full-length reports were issued, one on the human exploration of the solar system and one on NASA's technology programs. Three letter reports were released, dealing with space station utilization in anticipation of human exploration (Section 4.1)
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NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin, who had initiated a series of sweeping management changes at the agency on October 15, was awaiting word on his continued service before finalizing them. Concurrently, ominous rumors of major over-runs on the space station program, some as high as $1 billion, were emanating from the Johnson Space Center.
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Potential major Board-level projects were discussed, and options for the June meeting agenda were considered. It was decided to hold a face-to-face meeting of the Executive Committee in April to meet the newly appointed Associate Administrator of Life and Microgravity Sciences and Applications Harry Holloway and to discuss issues in the NASA life sciences programs.
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Option C is the lowest risk and potentially lower in cost."2 In the middle of these dramatic developments, the Board held its 110th meeting on June 9-11 at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Major activities of the meeting included action on three reports: a research strategy by the Committee on Microgravity Research, a final report of the Task Group on Priorities in Space Research, and a report on science management by the Committee on Human Exploration.
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In addition, new or revised project statements of task were approved for the Committees on International Programs, Planetary and Lunar Exploration, and Space Biology and Medicine and the Joint Committee on Technology. Plans for a workshop by the Committee on Earth Studies and a joint study on the Space Station program by the Committees on Space Biology and Medicine and Microgravity Research program were also approved.
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It was decided that the report should be reformatted and published as a discussion paper rather than as a report presenting formal recommendations. The Board also considered and approved, with a number of revisions, a report on space station science management recently prepared by the Committees on Space Biology and Medicine and on Microgravity Research.
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In this environment, NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin was moving to address a long-perceived need by unveiling a strategic plan for the agency in early 1994. With NASA's new Chief Scientist, Dr.
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On November 11-12 the committee sent a delegation of CIP Chair William Merrell, member Arthur Walker, and Board Director Marc Allen to the fall meeting of the European Space Science Committee (ESSC) at ESA, in Paris.
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The study proposal drafted at its previous meeting was felt to be too broad by its two parent boards and by its NASA sponsors. A proposed charge from the Space Studies Board Executive Committee asking the joint committee to formally review NASA's responses to the recommendations of previous reports was considered.
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A representative of the DOE Physics Division described their non-accelerator physics program. The CAA discussed the possibility of developing recommendations for NASA and the NSF on how to implement the Astronomy and Astrophysics Survey Committee recommendations, especially the high-priority recommendations on maintaining the astronomy infrastructure (as defined by peer-reviewed projects)
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Incoming NASA Astrophysics Division Director Daniel Weedman gave his perspective on the status of the NASA astrophysics program. The committee was requested in a letter from NASA Associate Administrator Wesley Huntress to advise on NASA's infrared astronomy program, particularly on whether the rescoping of SIRTF and SOFIA within current budgetary constraints satisfied the Bahcall report's scientific objectives for infrared astronomy.
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Riemer, Executive Secretary ___________________________ * task group disbanded in 1993 COMMITTEE ON EARTH STUDIES The Committee on Earth Studies (CES)
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William Bonner, University Center for Atmospheric Research George Born, University of Colorado Janet Campbell, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space Dudley Chelton, Jr., Oregon State University John Evans, COMSAT Laboratories Diana Freckman, Colorado State University Elaine Hansen, University of Colorado Roy Jenne, National Center for Atmospheric Research Kenneth Jezek, Ohio State University Edward Kanemasu, University of Georgia Richard Kott, consultant, Fort Washington, Maryland Conway Leovy, University of Washington John MacDonald, MacDonald-Dettwiler Associates Pamela Mack, Clemson University Stanley Morain, University of New Mexico Clark Wilson, University of Texas at Austin Joyce M Purcell, Executive Secretary file:///C|/SSB_old_web/an93ch2a.htm (13 of 15)
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. The committee met in Washington on April 5-6 to undertake two tasks: to respond to comments by external reviewers on its second report, Scientific Opportunities in the Human Exploration of Space, and to finalize the text of its third report, Science Management Principles for the Human Exploration of Space.
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