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2 Introduction
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... CONTEXT FOR THE WORKSHOP After the tragedy of the Columbia accident in February 2003, the SSB and the ASEB recognized that a new level of national attention was being ctirectect toward NASA and the nation's civil space program. Before the accident, it tract been a growing matter of concern to both Boards that our current national program of human spaceflight the International Space Station (ISS)
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From page 9...
... Most importantly, we will have to figure out where we want the space program to go, and what we expect to get out of it. In opening a hearing on the future of human spaceflight Congressman Sherwood Boehiert, chair of the House Science Committee, saict,6 4 Report by the International Space Station (ISS)
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From page 10...
... The Space Shuttle and the Space Station are remarkable achievements something we are too prone to forget. But they are also extraordinarily expensive projects mind-bogglingly expensive compared to the original estimates and they haven't performed as advertised or done as much as hoped to advance human exploration or knowledge.
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From page 11...
... 64. Finally, the Augustine Committee called for clevelopment of"a reliable, unmanned vehicle that complements the Space Shuttle and that can be used for routine space trucking, saving the Space Shuttle for those missions requiring human presence." The CAIB looked ahead, beyond short-term recovery from the Columbia accident, and echoed many of the Augustine Committee findings.
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From page 12...
... ~ Any discussion of context must also note the broacler policy environment, inclucling the national security anct commercial space activities, the new Chinese human spaceflight program, the woric~wicle war on terror, substantial anct continuing deficits, an unfavorable balance of tracle, anct an erosion in the U.S. stancling in the worici.
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... If these questions are acictressect, then the workshop can consider a more ctirectect question: What should NASA become to achieve national goals? Fisk said that the basic premise of the workshop is that the United States needs to make fundamental changes in its civil space policy.
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