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1. Charter and Organization of the Board
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... In all three we shall look to the Board to be the focus of the interests and responsibilities of the Academy-Research Council in space science; to establish necessary relationships with civilian science and with governmental science activities, particularly the proposed new space agency, the National Science Foundation, and the Advanced Research Projects Agency; to represent the Academy-Research Council complex in our international relations in this fieldonbehalfofAmerican science and scientists; to seekways to stimulate needed research; to promote necessary coordination of scientific effort; and to provide such advice and recommendations to appropriate individuals and agencies with regard to space science as may in the Board's judgment be desirable. As we have already agreed, the Board is intended to be an advisory, consultative, correlating, evaluating body and not an operating agency in the field of space science.
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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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... , an entity of the European Science Foundation, and completed a major collaborative study with this group in 1998. Strengthening contacts with the Japanese and Russian programs is expected to assume augmented priority as contacts with European research mature.
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... The Space Studies Board The Space Studies Board is composed of 24 to 26 prominent scientists, engineers, industrialists, scholars, and policy experts in space research, appointed for staggered terms of 1 to 3 years. The Board meets three or four times per year to review the activities of its committees and task groups and to be briefed on and discuss major space policy issues.
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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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... At the request of the National Science Foundation, with some additional funding provided by NASA, the Task Group on Ground-based Solar Research (TGGSR) was tasked with analyzing existing capabilities and projected trends in ground-based observational facilities and other research infrastructure elements in order to evaluate new research opportunities, and to assess whether projected funding and available resources will be adequate to execute the requisite program of ground-based solar research, including the ground-based component of solar physics space missions.
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... It is important to understand the size limits of life forms to provide a basis for identifying ancient biological activities in terrestrial and aquatic environments, as well as samples returned from small solar system bodies (comets, asteroids, planetary satellites) and planets such as Mars.
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... Recent examples include input from the Institute of Medicine in selecting new members of the SSB Committee on Space Biology and Medicine (CSBM) to undertake CSBM's new review of biomedical research at NASA and input from the CLS in identifying candidates to participate in the SSB review of NASA's plans for biotechnology research facilities on the International Space Station.
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