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1 Introduction
Pages 9-11

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... SMD funds more than 3,000 openly competed research awards with universities, industry, and government laboratories. SMD reports its extensive reach in its "Share the Science" website, with "54 balloon missions in development, 23 Earthobserving operating missions, 5 upcoming Earth system observatory missions, 2 launched sounding rockets with 45 science missions in development, 49 SmallSats/CubeSats science missions and 29 technology demos, with 114 missions from formulation through extended operations."1 THE OPPORTUNITY: SHAPING THE FUTURE OF THE SCIENCE AND RESEARCH COMMUNITY Discovery in each science discipline is enabled by technology and instrument innovation, but more importantly, fueled by the energy and creativity of researchers, students, postdocs, scientists, data analysts, engineers, 1  NASA, "Science by the Numbers," NASA Science, https://science.nasa.gov, accessed March 3, 2022.
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... 3  The complex history of biological and physical sciences at NASA started with the life sciences program acknowledged by the Kety Committee in 1960 as a critical area needing focus beyond simply operational support for manned spaceflight. The multiple organizational constructs and funding levels of this critical science area reflect the varied perspectives of the role of the originally envisioned program office as well as differing perspectives of its relationship with human spaceflight programs.
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... Geological Survey to name a few, as well as spinoff technologies funded and developed in conjunction with the Science and Technology office of the Department of Homeland Security, like 3D sensing technologies developed for spacecraft applied to Earth applications, as well as private and even corporate funding in the natural resource industries. For biological and physical science research, funding sources include NSF, the National Institutes of Health, and DoD.
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