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1 Charter and Organization of the Board
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... Berkner, first chair of the Board, on June 26, 1958: We have talked of the main task of the Board in three parts the immediate program, the long-range program, and the international aspects of both. 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.
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... 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. Individual discipline committees may be called upon by the Board to prepare specialized material for use by either the Board or its interdisciplinary committees or task groups.
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... Space Biology Committee on Committee on and Microgravity Earth Medicine Research Studies Ad hoc Task Groups Space Studies Board Executive Committee Committee on Solar and Space Physics National Academy of Public , Administratic in Space 0 1 Research I Space Applications and Commercialization Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration Pl-led Earth Science Missions NASA- NOAA Transition from Research to Operations Solar and Space Physics Survey Availability and Usefulness of NASA's Space Mission Data Solar System Exploration Strategy Robotic Precursors to HEDS at Mars Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate Board on Earth Sciences and Resources Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board FIGURE 1.1 Organization of the Space Studies Board and its committees and task groups. Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics Committee on the Origins and Evolution of Life Exploring Organic Environments in the Solar System Board on Physics —+ and Astronomy Board on Life Sciences Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology
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... In addition to developing long-range research strategies and formal program and progress assessments in terms of these strategies, the standing committees sometimes organize ad hoc studies and provide oversight of the task groups created to conduct such studies. They also perform analysis tasks in support of interdisciplinary task groups and committees or in response to other requirements assigned by the Board.
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... However, there are other situations where the need for breadth of expertise, alternative points of view, or synergy with other NRC projects lead to compelling arguments for collaboration with other units of the NRC. The Space Studies Board has been engaged in many such multiunit collaborations, and the increasingly interdisciplinary, multidimensional character of contemporary science and technology is likely to lead to more cross-NRC activities.


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