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2 Board and Standing Committees: Activities and Membership
2 Board and Standing Committees: Activities and Membership
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The Board and its standing committees provide strategic direction and oversee activities of ad hoc study committees (see Chapter 3) , interact with sponsors, and serve as a communications conduit between the government and the scientific community.
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The XCOM spoke with congressional representatives from the Senate Commerce, S cience, and Transportation Committee and the House Committee on Science and Technology on the outlook from Capitol Hill. The committee continued general discussion on the roles and operations of the Board and its standing committees, ad hoc committees, the financial status of the Board, the NRC efforts to streamline internal processes, and planning for the November SSB meeting and workshop.
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Christensen, Dixie State College Jack D Fellows, University Corporation for Alan Dressler, Observatories of the Carnegie Institution Atmospheric Research Jack D
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Nealson, University of Southern Berrien Moore III, University of New Hampshire California Robert T Pappalardo, Jet Propulsion Laboratory James A
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Major items discussed and approved by the COSPAR Council included the initiation of a new program of capacity-building fellow ships and changes in COSPAR planetary protection policies relating to the Moon, Venus, and Mars special regions and human exploration activities. Future COSPAR activities include the annual business meetings to be held in Paris in March 2009, and the scientific assemblies to be held in Bremen, Germany, in 2010 and Mysore, India, in 2014.
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Institutional Arrangements for the Space Telescope (1976) Institutional Arrangements The Explorer Program for Long-Lived Space Space Science in the Twenty for the Space Telescope: A Astronomy and Observatories for Astronomy First CenturyAstronomy and Mid-Term Review (1985)
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At the CES meeting in September 22-23, 2008, in Boulder, Colorado, the committee received a background briefing on the COSMIC mission and updates on progress in implementing the decadal survey-recommended missions ICESat-II and CLARREO. SSB member Jack Fellows (University Corporation for Atmospheric Research)
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Steps to Facilitate Principal-Investigator-Led Earth Science Missions (2004) "Assessment of NASA's Draft Utilization of Operational Environmental Satellite Data: 2003 Earth Science Enterprise Ensuring Readiness for 2010 and Beyond (2004)
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In addition to briefings on the current status of NASA's Astrobiology and related programs, the committee devoted a significant amount of time to presentations, discussions, and deliberations concerning NASA's planning for an outer solar system flagship mission. In response to a request from SSB, committee members drafted an assessment of the current status of NASA's Astrobiology program in light of the agency's enacted budget for FY 2008 and proposed budget for FY 2009.
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An Integrated Strategy for the Planetary Sciences: 1995-2010 (1994) Mars Sample Return: Issues and Recommendations Evaluating the Biological Potential in Samples Returned (1997)
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COMPLEX met August 20-22, 2008, in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, to plan for the next decadal survey on solar system exploration. The meeting included open discussions that examined lessons learned from past decadal studies, with previous key participants such as Mark Sykes from the Planetary Science Institute, Michael Belton of Belton Space Exploration Initiatives, and Joseph Burns of Cornell University.
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"Report of the Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration," Section II of Report on Space Science -- 1975 (1976) Strategy for Exploration of the Strategy for the Exploration of Inner Planets: 1977-1987 (1978)
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Fisher, Program Associate, Space Studies Board SPACE RESEARCH DISCIPLINES WITHOUT STANDING COMMITTEE REPRESENTATION Although there are no longer standing committees representing microgravity research or space biology and medicine, a life and microgravity decadal survey will be conducted in 2009-2010. A historical summary of NRCSSB advice in space biology and medicine is presented in Figure 2.6, and a historical summary of NRC-SSB advice on microgravity research is presented in Figure 2.7.
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Scientific Assessment of NASA's Space Weather: An Assessment of the Solar and Space Physics Aspects of SMEX-MIDEX Space Physics A Research NASA's Space Science Enterprise Strategic Plan (1997) Mission Selections (1997)
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for Research in the Biological and Physical Sciences (2003) Review of NASA Plans for the International Space Station (2006)
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A Strategy for Research in Space Biology and Medicine in the New Century (1998) Review of NASA's Readiness Issues Related to Research in the Biological and Physical Biomedical Research Sciences on the International Space Station (2001)
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