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Suggested Citation:"Appendix F Number of Publications from Explorer and Discovery Missions." National Research Council. 2006. Principal-Investigator-Led Missions in the Space Sciences. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11530.
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Number of Publications from Explorer and Discovery Missions

Program/Mission

Launch Date

Principal Investigator/Affiliation

Number of Publications as of January/February 2005

Discovery

Lunar Prospector

1/6/98

Alan Binder, Lunar Research Institute

33

Stardust

2/7/99

Donald Brownlee, University of Washington

No response

Genesis

8/8/01

Donald Burnett, Caltech

21*

MESSENGER

8/3/04

Sean Solomon, Carnegie Institution

46

Deep Impact

1/12/05

Michael A’Hearn, University of Maryland

52

Dawn

NYL

Christopher Russell, University of California, Los Angeles

24

Kepler

NYL

William Borucki, NASA Ames

21*

Explorer

SNOE

2/26/98

Charles Barth, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics

14

FUSE

6/24/99

Warren Moos, Johns Hopkins University

449*

IMAGE

3/25/00

James Burch, Southwest Research Institute

382*

HETE-2

10/9/00

George Ricker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

104*

WMAP

6/30/01

Charles Bennett, NASA

~600

RHESSI

2/5/02

Robert Lin, University of California, Berkeley

174

CHIPS

1/12/03

Mark Hurwitz, University of California, Berkeley

7

GALEX

4/28/03

Chris Martin, Caltech

33

Swift

11/20/04

Neil Gehrels, NASA

27*

THEMIS

NYL

Vassillis Angelopolous, University of California, Berkeley

4

IBEX

NYL

David McComas, Southwest Research Institute

1

NuStar

NYL

Fiona Anne Harrison, Caltech

0

AIM

NYL

James M. Russell III, Hampton University

0

WISE

NYL

Edward L. Wright, University of California, Los Angeles

3

NOTES: This table only includes PI missions. See Tables 2.1 and 2.2. Publications include all full-length published scientific manuscripts (no abstracts, no popular press) and were obtained directly from the PI or the PI’s associates (assistants or other professors to whom the request was referred). Exceptions to this are marked with an asterisk (*); these publications were identified on the individual mission’s Web site (identified above each publication list). NYL, not yet launched. The full names of the missions are given in Appendix H.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix F Number of Publications from Explorer and Discovery Missions." National Research Council. 2006. Principal-Investigator-Led Missions in the Space Sciences. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11530.
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Principal Investigator-Led (PI-led) missions are an important element of NASA's space science enterprise. While several NRC studies have considered aspects of PI-led missions in the course of other studies for NASA, issues facing the PI-led missions in general have not been subject to much analysis in those studies. Nevertheless, these issues are raising increasingly important questions for NASA, and it requested the NRC to explore them as they currently affect PI-led missions. Among the issues NASA asked to have examined were those concerning cost and scheduling, the selection process, relationships among PI-led team members, and opportunities for knowledge transfer to new PIs. This report provides a discussion of the evolution and current status of the PIled mission concept, the ways in which certain practices have affected its performance, and the steps that can carry it successfully into the future. The study was done in collaboration with the National Academy of Public Administration.

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