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1 Charter and Organization of the Board
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... The Space Science Board and its successor, the Space Studies Board, have provided expert external and independent scientific and programmatic advice to NASA on a continuous basis from NASA's inception until the present. The fundamental charter of the Board today remains that defined by National Academy of Sciences President Detlev W
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... Agency requests for broader space policy or organizational guidance 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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... Another example is astronomy, where the Board operates the Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics as a joint committee of the Space Studies Board and the Board on Physics and Astronomy. The life and biological sciences are assuming increasing importance at NASA, and another area of possible future disciplinary association is with the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation and corresponding NRC entities.
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... Huchra T Prince FIGURE 1 Organization of the Space Studies Board and its committees and task groups during 1997.
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... Although the two committees retain their separate identities and reporting relationships to their parent boards, they continue to meet jointly, submitting study results to whichever of the respective boards sponsors a given activity. The JCT is composed of members of the Space Studies Board and the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board, augmented when appropriate by additional appointments as dictated by ongoing projects.
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... The final report of the task group is expected in 1998. Workshops and Special Projects In addition to its traditional function of managing deliberative committee studies on technical and policy issues, the National Research Council also exercises a broad convening function for facilitating the exchange of views and information among researchers and government policymakers.
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