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... We also had the opportunity to discuss them during several intervals, including Executive Session periods, at our meeting and during a subsequent teleconference of our Executive Committee. During your visit, you requested a rapid response from the Space Studies Board to help you and other senior managers identify key principles to be considered for preserving or even strengthening NASA's ability to carry out its goals in space research as you continue to explore downsizing options.
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... While it may take new forms, a close coupling between the agency and the spectrum of research communities will become even more critical in a new, leaner NASA, with its increased emphasis on NASA-university-industry partnerships like the Discovery program, long-lived, multicomponent research activities like the Earth Observing System, and multiuse orbiting research facilities like Spacelab and the International Space Station. Second, we believe that this binding requires that NASA have world-class scientists who, as a group, combine both the internal and external functional roles described below and are themselves sufficiently tightly integrated into NASA's engineering and technical infrastructure.
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... They may be of help in evaluating alternative ways of managing NASA science. If the most important mission of NASA scientists is to bind NASA to the broader research communities, then the most fundamental principle is to assure that this http://www7.nationalacademies.org/ssb/cordova.html (3 of 5)
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... Effective coordination of scientific research needs with technical and engineering capability is difficult to achieve and fragile because of the inevitable tensions between the two "cultures" of basic science and practical engineering. When these cultures work together, the resulting synergy yields spectacular successes, as NASA's history attests.
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... We look forward to continuing to work with you to assure an optimum return on the nation's space research investment in the years ahead. Last update 2/11/00 at 11:12 am Site managed by Anne Simmons, Space Studies Board Site managed by the SSB Web Group.
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