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2. Activities and Membership
2. Activities and Membership
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New SSB Director Joseph Alexander opened the year with three major near-term priorities. First, was the need to ensure that the wave of new reports cited above was actually completed and delivered as promised and to continue to provide the same level of timely, high-quality, independent advice about space programs.
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Forty years later, we can appreciate how profoundly that first Space Science Board influenced the processes that underlie today's vigorous international space research activities. A sampling of highlights from the second quarter of 1998 attests to the contemporary vigor of the space sciences.
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The forum included discussions of results of staff visits with government stakeholders; preparations for the Task Group on Technology Development in NASA's Office of Space Science; plans for the Joint Committee on Technology; issues relating to small missions; and NASA-university relations. Also discussed were a potential project proposal on space applications; Committee on International Space Programs-European Space Science Committee contacts with Japan; the workshop on the size limits of very small microorganisms; plans of the Committee on Human Exploration; and a potential astrobiology strategy study.
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The report Evaluating the Biological Potential in Samples Returned from Planetary Satellites and Small Solar System Bodies was delivered to NASA's planetary protection officer in time for use in discussions at the July COSPAR General Assembly. It addresses an important set of issues that are relevant to the growing number of plans in the international space research community for missions to return samples from the interplanetary medium,
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Additional earmarks for funding directed to specific institutions totaled at least $15 million in space science and $29 million in Earth science. The Space Studies Board's Executive Committee met on September 9-10 in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and approved the Task Group on Technology Development in NASA's Office of Space Science and the Europa reports.
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The session began with a brief presentation from Marc Allen of NASA regarding some thinking within the Office of Space Science about "grand challenges" for the new century. Then the Board heard from Mike Cornwall, a member of the JASONs, Bill Hoover and Dwight Abbott from the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board, and Len Culhane and Jean-Claude Worms of the European Space Science Committee.
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Videoconferences were held with Dr. Arnauld Nicogossian, NASA associate administrator of the Office of Life and Microgravity Sciences and Applications, Ed Weller, acting associate administrator of the Office of Space Science, and Michael Luther, acting deputy associate administrator of the Office of Earth Science.
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161pp. COMPLEX X Ad Hoc X X CES Ad Hoc X COMPLEX X COMPLEX X Ad Hoc X Ad Hoc X CES X X X X CSSP Ad Hoc SSB CSBM Ad Hoc X X X X X X X X X X CISP X X X X X X X X X X ESA DOE DOD X aPrincipal Agency Audience DOD Department of Defense DOE Department of Energy ESA European Space Agency NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NSF National Science Foundation OES NASA Office of Earth Science OLMSA NASA Office of Life and Microgravity Sciences and Applications OSS NASA Office of Space Science Another important measure of the capacity of the Board to produce high-quality work derives from the size, breadth, and depth of the cadre of experts who serve on SSB committees and task groups or who participate in other ways in the activities of the Board.
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The report review process is as important as the writing of reports, and during the period there were 94 different external reviewers who contributed to critiques of draft reports. Overall, we counted 501 individuals from 96 academic institutions, 59 industry or non-profit organizations, and 9 government agencies or offices who participated in SSB activities.
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J Leonard Culhane, ENSPS, (ex officio, chair of the European Space Science Committee)
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To justify its argument for technology support on these two specific missions, the CAA in its letter referred to the top priorities for space astrophysics identified in the 1997 report of the CAA's Task Group on Space Astronomy and Astrophysics, A New Science Strategy for Space Astronomy and Astrophysics. The committee met in Washington, D.C., on April 27-28.
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The committee met for its annual summer study meeting at the Beckman Center on June 1-6. The majority of the meeting was devoted to completing a first draft of the report A Scientific Strategy for the Exploration of Europa and to revising the text of the report A Scientific Rationale for Mobility in Planetary Environments in response to comments received from external reviewers.
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Committee members worked on initiation of the study to assess radiation risks to the International Space Station and held
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A second major element of the meeting was discussion of plans for a possible new project to develop a framework for articulating and evaluating the central science issues in NASA's SEC program. Also addressed via teleconference during the meeting were the status and potential implications of the loss of contact on June 24 with the European Space Agency-NASA SOHO spacecraft.
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The committee's strategy report, A Strategy for Research in Space Biology and Medicine in the New Century, was published in mid-September. The committee met on July 29-30 in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, to discuss potential new tasks and membership categories.
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The committee's next meeting was scheduled for March 3-5, 1999, at the Johnson Space Center. CSBM Membership Mary Jane Osborn, University of Connecticut Health Center (chair)
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co-located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on April 27 to May 1, 1998, in order to gather information on HEDS technology development and planning. The committee met on August 11-13 in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, to review and continue writing its draft report on microgravity science in support of HEDS technology development.
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Allen, Senior Program Assistant COMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL SPACE PROGRAMS A small group convened on February 3 at the National Academy of Sciences' building in Washington, D.C., to discuss a strategy and plan for the Committee on International Space Programs (CISP) to establish relations with Japan that could eventually lead to a joint study activity.
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SSB Chair Claude Canizares, SSB Director Joseph Alexander, and CISP Staff Officer Pamela Whitney attended the meeting of the ESSC held at the European Space Agency (ESA) headquarters in Paris, France, in early April.
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. SSB Director Joseph Alexander, ASEB Director George Levine, and Staff Officer Pamela Whitney met with NRO representatives to discuss potential interest in a study on the topic "Infusion of New Technologies for Manufacturing, Operations, and Processing into the Intelligence Command Space Programs." Planning for future activities continued informally during the fourth quarter.
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The draft report was revised and resubmitted to the Board. It was approved in May and entered external review.
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Wesley Huntress, NASA associate administrator for space science, the Board formed the Task Group on Technology Development in NASA's Office of Space Science (TGTOSS)
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Anne K Simmons, Senior Program Assistant Space Studies Board Annual Report 1998 WORKSHOP ON BIOLOGY-BASED TECHNOLOGY FOR ENHANCED SPACE EXPLORATION The Report of the Workshop on Biology-based Technology to Enhance Human Well-being and Function in Extended Space Exploration was published and disseminated in m~d-April.
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Andrew Knoll of Harvard University and Dr. Mary Jane Osborn of the University of Connecticut Health Center, addressed the issue of minimal microbial size, which has been a subject of considerable debate within the scientific community, especially when viewed through the lens of planetary exploration.
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