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1 Charter and Organization of the Board
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... 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 fieldonbehalfofAmerican science and scientists; to seekways 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. As we have already agreed, the Board is intended to be an advisory, consultative, correlating, evaluating body and not an operating agency in the field of space science.
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... Agency requests for broader space policy or organizational advice are addressed by suitable ad hoc organizational arrangements and appropriate final documentation. Other special agency requests that require responses synchronized with the federal budget cycle are relayed to standing committees for action or are taken up by ad hoc task groups.
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... One example is the solar-terrestrial community, where the Board's Committee on Solar and Space Physics has operated for several years in a "federated" arrangement with the NRC Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Research. Another example is astronomy, where the Board operates a Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics as a joint committee of the Space Studies Board and the Board on Physics and Astronomy.
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... The Board is constituted in such a way as to include as members its committees' chairs; other Board members serve on internal committees of the Board or perform other special functions as designated by the Board Chair. The Board seats, as ex officio members, the chairs of the NRC Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board and of the NRC Naval Studies Board's Space Panel.
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... The adopted approach to carrying out the requested study was to use the Space Studies Board's in-place advisory structure wherever possible. The Board formed a FOSS Steering Group, two new task groups, and adapted its existing Joint Committee on Technology (JCT)
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... mission. Working with the Board on Physics and Astronomy, the Space Studies Board established the Task Group on Gravity Probe B to conduct the required study.
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