Supporting Research and Data Analysis in NASA's Science Programs Engines for Innovation and Synthesis (1998) / Chapter Skim
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Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., Decmember 1990; National Science and Technology Council, "National Space Policy," The White House, Septem ber 1996. 2National Research Council, Space Studies Board, Setting Priorities for Space Research Opportunities and Imperatives, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 1992, p.
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In a paper marking the fiftieth anniversary of Vannevar Bush's report Science: The Endless Frontier,4 Princeton University political scientist Donald Stokes referrred to this aspect of science as "use-inspired basic research."5 A substantial number of the key scientific questions framing NASA's science programs, especially in the Earth and life and microgravity sciences, reflect such a use-inspired orientation. 1.2 CRITICAL SCIENCE QUESTIONS The R&DA grants and contracts that fund university and industry researchers facilitate the agency's link to the nation's intellectual resources.
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135-179 in Infinite in All Directions, Harper & Row, New York, 1988. 7National Research Council, Space Studies Board, The Role of Small Missions in Lunar and Planetary Exploration, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 1995; National Research Council, Space Studies Board, The Role of Small Satellites in NASA and NOAA Earth Observation Programs, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C.
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8National Research Council, Space Studies Board, Managing the Space Sciences, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 1995; letter report sent by Space Studies Board Chair Claude Canizares to NASA Associate Administrator for Space Science Wesley Huntress, "On NASA's Office of Space Science draft strategic plan," August 27, 1997. 9Space and Earth Sciences Advisory Committee of the NASA Advisory Council, The Crisis in Space and Earth Sciences, November 1986; National Commission on Space, Pioneering the Space Frontier, Bantam Books, New York, May 1986; Steven Wofsy, Report of the NASA Earth System Science and Applications Advisory Committee (ESSAAC)
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