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1 History and Charter
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... CHAPTER 3 CHAPTER 4 REORGANIZATION OF THE BOARD-CREATION OF THE SPACE STUDIES BOARD In 1988, the Space Science Board undertook a series of retreats to review its structure, scope, and goals. These retreats were motivated by the Board's desire to more closely align its structure and activities with evolving government advisory needs, and by its assumption of a major portion of the responsibilities of the disestablished Space Applications Board.
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... Lloyd Berkner, first chair of the Space Science Board, in a letter of 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 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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... OVERSIGHT OF SPACE RESEARCH DISCIPLINES The Board has responsibility for strategic planning and oversight in the numerous subdisciplines of space research, including space astronomy, Earth studies from space, microgravity science, solar and space physics, space biology and medicine, and planetary and lunar exploration. This responsibility is discharged through an organization of separate discipline committees, and includes preparation of strategic research plans as well as assessments of progress in these disciplines.
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... ADVISORY OUTREACH The Space Science Board was conceived to provide space research guidance across the federal government. Over the years, the Board's agenda has focused on NASA's space science program.
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... The Board expects to continue to reach out beyond NASA to other federal agencies, seeking to establish advisory and corresponding sponsorship relationships, where appropriate. 1The Decade of Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics Survey Committee, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 1991.
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