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Appendix D: Committee Outreach and Public Responses
Pages 85-90

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... Questions that you might consider when framing your input to the committee: • What should be the rationale and goals for the civil space program? • How can the civil space program address key national issues?
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... Submissions almost uniformly reflected deep thought about and serious attention to the issues considered by the study. Responses rarely focused on a single aspect of space policy and instead tended to address many ideas.
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... , the American Society for Gravitational and Space Biology (ASGSB) , the National Space Society, and Space Florida submitted comments.
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... or elsewhere that could replace the Civil Space Program and the past work of the program must be maintained in the public domain for its scientific, historical, cultural and societal value. The ASGSB considered the following issues to be important for committee consideration: restoring space biology's identity as a budget item; restoring research funding for the International Space Station; restoring NASA funding for basic research; recognizing that decreased funding in space life sciences research has led to severed links in academia; and recognizing the need for basic animal and plant research in space.
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... Space Florida's input to the committee focused on optimizing the use of the International Space Station, leveraging partnerships between NASA and other government, commercial, and space advocacy organizations. Space Florida strongly supports the Constellation program and human space exploration, and they believe that the crisis in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)
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