NASA Space Technology Roadmaps and Priorities Restoring NASA's Technological Edge and Paving the Way for a New Era in Space (2012) / Chapter Skim
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leadership in space requires a foundation of sustained technology advances that can enable the devel opment of more capable, reliable, and lower-cost spacecraft and launch vehicles to achieve space program goals. A strong advanced technology development foundation is needed also to enhance technology readiness of new missions, mitigate their technological risks, improve the quality of cost estimates, and thereby contribute to better overall mission cost management.
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to develop technology roadmaps and seek input from the aerospace technical community via this study. 1 TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM RATIONALE AND SCOPE The 2010 NASA Authorization Act, signed into law on October 11, 2010, directed NASA to create a program to maintain its research and development base in space technology: It is critical that NASA maintain an agency space technology base that helps align mission directorate investments and supports long term needs to complement mission-directorate funded research and support, where appropriate, multiple users, building upon its Innovative Partnerships Program and other partnering approaches.
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In the process of defining level 3 technologies of interest, NASA mission directorates helped identify "pull" technologies that could contribute to specific future missions. The roadmaps also include emerging "push" technologies that may enable mission capabilities that lie outside the baseline requirements of planned missions and which may enable missions not yet envisioned.
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The panels, which were composed of subject-matter experts, were each responsible for evaluating one to four draft roadmaps. The steering committee was responsible for provid ing guidance to the panels, coordinating their work, and compiling both the interim report and this final report.
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