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1 Summary of Keynote Speakers Remarks
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... The first formal decadal survey, which involved broad scientific community input, addressed ground-based astronomy 2 and was issued in 1964 by the NRC Committee on Science and Public Policy. Subsequent NRC surveys in astronomy appeared in 1972 3 (including a recommendation for the High Energy Astrophysics Observatory)
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... Thus, these NASA committees enabled the scientific community to be thoroughly involved in the execution of the program and to contribute to a flow of information from the scientific community up and down the NASA management chain. Fisk described a key milestone for NASA's science budgets at the time of the initiation of the space station program in 1984 when NASA Administrator James Beggs wrote to SSB Chair Thomas Donahue saying that NASA was "willing .
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... In drawing conclusions from his historical assessment of decadal surveys, Fisk emphasized that two governing principles that have been in place since the beginning -- the NRC does the strategic planning, and the NASA science program is conducted on behalf of all the nation's scientists -- remain timely and important. He observed that these principles were respected and effective during NASA's first 35 years but have been threatened, and even disavowed, during the past two decades.
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... • How can surveys engage new partners, and how can surveys improve coordination of planning in other countries? To offer a broader context for the workshop's consideration of decadal surveys for space and Earth science, Grunsfeld emphasized that science is important for the nation and the world.
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