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6 Guiding Principles of a 21st Century Space Policy
6 Guiding Principles of a 21st Century Space Policy
Pages 29-33
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The panelists incluclect Albert Wheelon, former president and CEO of Hughes Aircraft Company; Noel Hinners, a planetary scientist and former senior industry and NASA executive; Tocict La Porte, a political scientist from the University of California at Berkeley; and Robert Richardson, a physicist and university administrator from Cornell University. Panelists were asked to acictress the following questions: What principles should apply for setting goals and priorities and clefining balance?
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With respect to the manned space program, Wheelon commented that the Mercury and Gemini programs represented a quick response to the challenge posed by the Soviet launch of Sputnik. Apollo met its goals and reasserted the U.S.
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The sole focus of the ISS should be to do biomedical, physiological, and psychological studies in support of future Tong-cluration human exploration beyond Tow Earth orbit. He commented that we should do this research, and then "its job is clone." He also noted that we have not clone a good job collectively with international partners and that we need a more effective way to conduct such partnerships at the beginning rather than after programs have been clefinect.
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La Porte noted that in trying to unclerstanct highly reliable organizations, researchers Took at what happens inside the organization to prevent a particular undesirable outcome and Took at the institution's external relationships. Highly reliable organizations tenet to have operations that are collegial and highly collaborative, as well as clecentraTizect authority, particularly as the tempo increases in complexity.
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Scientists can't always affect policy positively, but they can greatly affect policy negatively, she concluclecl. Fisk askecl, "If you're defining space policy, do you have to say that there needs to be a funclamental change in NASA and the space program?
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