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Appendix A: Congressional Mandate and Letter of Request
Pages 157-159

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... STRATEGY. -- (1) IN GENERAL. -- The Administrator shall enter into an arrangement with the National Academies to develop a science strategy for astrobiology that would outline key scientific questions, identify the most prom ising research in the field, and indicate the extent to which the mission priorities in existing decadal surveys address the search for life's origin, evolution, distribution, and future in the Universe.
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