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... Space Studies Board Annual Report -- 1991 Space Studies Board Annual Report -- 1991 NOTICE FROM THE CHAIR CHAPTER 1 CHAPTER 2 CHAPTER 3 CHAPTER 4 Space Studies Board CHAPTER 5 Commission on Physical Sciences, APPENDIX Mathematics, and Applications National Research Council Notice From the Chair 1. History and Charter of the Board file:///C|/SSB_old_web/an91menu.htm (1 of 3)
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... Congressional Testimony 5.1 Testimony on the Report of the Advisory Committee on the Future of the U.S. Space Program 5.2 Testimony on the Space Station Freedom Program 5.3 Summary Testimony on the Space Station Freedom Program 5.4 Testimony on the NASA Fiscal Year 1992 Budget Proposal (House)
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... Support for the work of the Space Studies Board and its committees and task groups was provided by National Aeronautics and Space Administration contracts NASW-4201 and NASW-4627 and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration contract 50-DGNE-1-00138. REPORT MENU NOTICE FROM THE CHAIR CHAPTER 1 CHAPTER 2 CHAPTER 3 CHAPTER 4 CHAPTER 5 APPENDIX file:///C|/SSB_old_web/an91notice.htm (1 of 2)
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... The Board and its Committees on Space Biology and Medicine and on Microgravity Research examined the redesigned station and concluded, in a letter report, that "[n] either the quantity nor the quality of research that can be conducted on the proposed station merits the projected investment." Explaining, discussing, and testifying on this Board report occupied a significant amount of time and attention of the Chair and the staff as the 1992 budgetary process worked its way through the Congress.
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... I hope that this summary report of the 1991 activities of the Space Studies Board will indeed be helpful to future researchers and policymakers. I also hope that this report will be but the first in a continuing series that chronicles in a useful way the advisory actions of this Board of the National Research Council.
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