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5 Congressional Testimony
5 Congressional Testimony
Pages 63-69
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. As you know, the Space Studies Board has been the principal independent source of guidance to the civil space research program since NASA was created by statute in 1958.
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The Space Studies Board has released two reports on planetary quarantine in relation to Mars exploration. Published in 1992, the report Biological Contamination of Mars: Issues and Recommendations addressed topics arising from Earth spacecraft landing on Mars.
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As laid out in NASA's Budget Estimates book, MO&DA supports satellite operations and scientific analysis of returned data during the prime and extended phases of active missions, as well as preflight preparations for these activities and long-term data archiving and access to the data. In addition, the line supports the development of new scientific instruments for the Hubble Space Telescope.
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A brief survey of our own reports reveals the following examples: · Scientific discoveries: the primary product of space research is the results it returns in every discipline, from cosmology to life sciences, which cannot be achieved in any other way; · Foreign policy: engineering, technology, and research achievements in space have been instruments of foreign policy and leadership; · National security: solar and space physics, including the physics of the middle and upper atmosphere, which are linked to solar variability, can strongly affect defense (as well as civilian) capabilities in communication, navigation, and surveillance; · Instrumentation: research activities in many fields, for example astronomy, contribute to and depend on development and application of sophisticated sensors, an essential technology for the defense, medical, and commercial sectors;
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Space research began in part as a very visible demonstration of this nation's vast technical and organizational capabilities, its capability to meet and surmount what appeared to be nearly impossible challenges, and its ability to compete successfully with our adversaries and to cooperate willingly with our friends. Raising both public consciousness and international recognition, space research stimulated and inspired a generation of schoolchildren, myself included, to pursue careers in science and engineering.
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Such an approach would not constitute a robust laboratory science flight program in the pre-station era, but it could help conserve the vitality of U.S. research in the affected areas and do much to accelerate our realizing the benefits of the space station investment once it is fully outfitted early in the next century.
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1997 An Assessment of the Solar and Space Physics Aspects of NASA's Space Science Enterprise Strategic Plan, SSB Committee on Solar and Space Physics with the Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate's Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Research The Human Exploration of Space, SSB Committee on Human Exploration An Initial Review of Microgravity Research in Support of Human Exploration and Development of Space, SSB Committee on Microgravity Research Lessons Learnedfrom the Clementine Mission, SSB Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration Mars Sample Return: Issues and Recommendations, SSB Task Group on Issues in Sample Return A New Science Strategy for Space Astronomy and Astrophysics, SSB Task Group on Space Astronomy and Astrophysics Reducing the Costs of Space Science Research Missions: Proceedings of a Workshop, SSB and Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board Joint Committee on Technology for Space Science and Applications Science Management in the Human Exploration of Space, SSB Committee on Human Exploration Scientific Assessment of NASA's SMEX-MIDEX Space Physics Mission Selections, SSB Committee on Solar and Space Physics with the Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate's Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Research Space Studies Board Annual Report 1996, Space Studies Board Space Weather: A Research Perspective, SSB Committee on Solar and Space Physics with the Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate's Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Research "On Research Facilities Planning for the International Space Station," letter from SSB Chair Claude R Canizares, Committee on Space Biology and Medicine Chair Mary Jane Osborn, and Committee on Microgravity Research Former Chair Martin E
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