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6 GENERAL FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
6 GENERAL FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Pages 113-115
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But even without a presidential mandate for major human exploration programs, NASA has a basic mission to advance technologies for space exploration and should be able to organize and prioritize a small fraction of its resources on R&D for the technologies necessary for the safe human exploration of space in the next century. The situation has become so strained that many members of NASA management seem reluctant to admit that they are contemplating human exploration missions even missions that would be launched more than 20 years hence apparently because there is no presidential or congressional directive for any human space exploration mission after the ISS.
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Requirements for technology development should be predicated on carefully developed reference missions and systems analysis to determine functional requirements. There are many good existing design reference mission studies that could be adapted and used by all programs.
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The Human Support Program should strive to include universities and industry in its projects and should make special efforts to take advantage of the willingness of industry to spend private funds on research and development projects relevant to NASA's long-term goals. Recommendation 6-9.
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