288 E-böcker av Space Studies Board
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Decadal Science Strategy Surveys
The Workshop on Decadal Science Strategy Surveys was held on November 14-16, 2006, to promote discussions of the use of National Research Council (NRC) decadal surveys for developing and implementing …
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Committee on NASA Astronomy Science Centers & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Portals to the Universe
The astronomy science centers established by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to serve as the interfaces between astronomy missions and the community of scientists who utilize …
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Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on Meeting the Workforce Needs for the National Vision for Space Exploration: Building a Better NASA Workforce
The Vision for Space Exploration (VSE) announced by President George W. Bush in 2004 sets NASA and the nation on a bold path to return to the Moon and one day put a human on Mars. The long-term endea …
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Board on Life Sciences & Committee on an Astrobiology Strategy for the Exploration of Mars: Astrobiology Strategy for the Exploration of Mars
Three recent developments have greatly increased interest in the search for life on Mars. The first is new information about the Martian environment including evidence of a watery past and the possib …
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€32.66
Committee on Earth Science and Applications from Space: A Community Assessment and Strategy for the Future & National Research Council: Satellite Observations to Benefit Science and Society
Satellite Observations to Benefit Science and Society: Recommended Missions for the Next Decade brings the next ten years into focus for the Earth and environmental science community with a prioritiz …
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€14.66
Committee on the Scientific Context for Exploration of the Moon & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Scientific Context for Exploration of the Moon
Because of the Moon’s unique place in the evolution of rocky worlds, it is a prime focus of NASA’s space exploration vision. Currently NASA is defining and implementing a series of robotic orbital an …
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€30.93
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on NASA’s Beyond Einstein Program: An Architecture for Implementation: NASA’s Beyond Einstein Program
"Beyond Einstein science" is a term that applies to a set of new scientific challenges at the intersection of physics and astrophysics. Observations of the cosmos now have the potential to …
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€41.61
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Options to Ensure the Climate Record from the NPOESS and GOES-R Spacecraft
In 2000, the nations next-generation National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) program anticipated purchasing six satellites for $6.5 billion, with a first launch in …
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€18.02
Committee on Assessing the Solar System Exploration Program & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Grading NASA’s Solar System Exploration Program
The NASA Authorization Act of 2005 directed the agency to ask the NRC to assess the performance of each division in the NASA Science directorate at five-year intervals. In this connection, NASA reque …
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€21.24
Committee on the Review of the NASA Astrobiology Institute & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of the NASA Astrobiology Institute
Astrobiology is a scientific discipline devoted to the study of life in the universe – its origin, evolution, distribution, and future. In 1997, NASA established an Astrobiology program (the NASA Ast …
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€21.18
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Space Science and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations
ITAR, which controls defense trade, includes the U.S. Munitions List (USML) which specifies categories of defense articles and services covered by the regulations. In 1999, space satellites were adde …
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Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on Science Opportunities Enabled by NASA’s Constellation System: Launching Science
In January 2004 NASA was given a new policy direction known as the Vision for Space Exploration. That plan, now renamed the United States Space Exploration Policy, called for sending human and roboti …
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€36.82
Committee on New Opportunities in Solar System Exploration: An Evaluation of the New Frontiers Announcement of Opportunity & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Opening New Frontiers in Space
The New Frontiers Program was created by NASA in 2002 at the recommendation of the NRC’s decadal survey for solar system research. In order to optimize solar system research, the NRC recommended a se …
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€21.24
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on Science Opportunities Enabled by NASA’s Constellation System: Science Opportunities Enabled by NASA’s Constellation System
To begin implementation of the Vision for Space Exploration (recently renamed United States Space Exploration Policy), NASA has begun development of new launch vehicles and a human-carrying spacecraf …
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€20.93
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: United States Civil Space Policy
In 2004, the NRC released a workshop report about the future direction of the U.S. civil space program. At the same time, the Administration announced the Vision for Space Exploration, and in June 20 …
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€14.62
Committee on a Strategy to Mitigate the Impact of Sensor Descopes and Demanifests on the NPOESS and GOES-R Spacecraft & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Ensuring the Climate Record from the NPOESS and GOES-R Spacecraft
In 2000, the nation’s next-generation National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) program anticipated purchasing six satellites for $6.5 billion, with a first launch i …
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€42.38
Committee on the Societal and Economic Impacts of Severe Space Weather Events: A Workshop & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Severe Space Weather Events
The adverse effects of extreme space weather on modern technologypower grid outages, high-frequency communication blackouts, spacecraft anomaliesare well known and well documented, and the physical p …
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€34.65
Committee on the Review of Planetary Protection Requirements for Mars Sample Return Missions & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of Planetary Protection Requirements for Mars Sample Return Missions
NASA maintains a planetary protection policy to avoid the forward biological contamination of other worlds by terrestrial organisms, and back biological contamination of Earth from the return of extr …
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€20.93
Committee on Heliophysics Performance Assessment & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Performance Assessment of NASA’s Heliophysics Program
Since the 1990s, the pace of discovery in the field of solar and space physics has accelerated, largely owing to NASA investments in its Heliophysics Great Observatory fleet of spacecraft. These enab …
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€21.19
Committee on the Societal and Economic Impacts of Severe Space Weather Events: A Workshop & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Severe Space Weather Events-Understanding Societal and Economic Impacts
The adverse effects of extreme space weather on modern technologypower grid outages, high-frequency communication blackouts, spacecraft anomaliesare well known and well documented, and the physical p …
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€14.80
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Radioisotope Power Systems
Spacecraft require electrical energy. This energy must be available in the outer reaches of the solar system where sunlight is very faint. It must be available through lunar nights that last for 14 d …
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Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Forging the Future of Space Science
From September 2007 to June 2008 the Space Studies Board conducted an international public seminar series, with each monthly talk highlighting a different topic in space and Earth science. The princi …
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Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate & Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications: Uncertainty Management in Remote Sensing of Climate Data
Great advances have been made in our understanding of the climate system over the past few decades, and remotely sensed data have played a key role in supporting many of these advances. Improvements …
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Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Approaches to Future Space Cooperation and Competition in a Globalizing World
Numerous countries and regions now have very active space programs, and the number is increasing. These maturing capabilities around the world create a plethora of potential partners for cooperative …
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Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on the Rationale and Goals of the U.S. Civil Space Program: America’s Future in Space
As civil space policies and programs have evolved, the geopolitical environment has changed dramatically. Although the U.S. space program was originally driven in large part by competition with the S …
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€28.42
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Approaches to Future Space Cooperation and Competition in a Globalizing World
Numerous countries and regions now have very active space programs, and the number is increasing. These maturing capabilities around the world create a plethora of potential partners for cooperative …
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Committee on the Societal and Economic Impacts of Severe Space Weather Events: A Workshop & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Severe Space Weather Events
The adverse effects of extreme space weather on modern technologypower grid outages, high-frequency communication blackouts, spacecraft anomaliesare well known and well documented, and the physical p …
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€46.30
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Radioisotope Power Systems
Spacecraft require electrical energy. This energy must be available in the outer reaches of the solar system where sunlight is very faint. It must be available through lunar nights that last for 14 d …
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Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee to Review Near-Earth Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies: Near-Earth Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies
The United States is currently the only country with an active, government-sponsored effort to detect and track potentially hazardous near-Earth objects (NEOs). Congress has mandated that NASA detect …
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Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate & Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications: Uncertainty Management in Remote Sensing of Climate Data
Great advances have been made in our understanding of the climate system over the past few decades, and remotely sensed data have played a key role in supporting many of these advances. Improvements …
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€30.81
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on the Rationale and Goals of the U.S. Civil Space Program: America’s Future in Space
As civil space policies and programs have evolved, the geopolitical environment has changed dramatically. Although the U.S. space program was originally driven in large part by competition with the S …
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€40.99
Committee on the Role and Scope of Mission-Enabling Activities in NASA’s Space and Earth Science Missions & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Enabling Foundation for NASA’s Earth and Space Science Missions
NASA’s space and Earth science program is composed of two principal components: spaceflight projects and mission-enabling activities. Most of the budget of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) is …
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Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee to Review Near-Earth Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies: Near-Earth Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies
The United States is currently the only country with an active, government-sponsored effort to detect and track potentially hazardous near-Earth objects (NEOs). Congress has mandated that NASA detect …
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Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee to Review Near-Earth-Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies: Defending Planet Earth
The United States spends approximately $4 million each year searching for near-Earth objects (NEOs). The objective is to detect those that may collide with Earth. The majority of this funding support …
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Committee on NASA’s Suborbital Research Capabilities & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Revitalizing NASA’s Suborbital Program
Suborbital flight activities, including the use of sounding rockets, aircraft, high-altitude balloons, and suborbital reusable launch vehicles, offer valuable opportunities to advance science, train …
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Committee on the Role and Scope of Mission-Enabling Activities in NASA’s Space and Earth Science Missions & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Enabling Foundation for NASA’s Earth and Space Science Missions
NASA’s space and Earth science program is composed of two principal components: spaceflight projects and mission-enabling activities. Most of the budget of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) is …
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Committee on NASA’s Suborbital Research Capabilities & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Revitalizing NASA’s Suborbital Program
Suborbital flight activities, including the use of sounding rockets, aircraft, high-altitude balloons, and suborbital reusable launch vehicles, offer valuable opportunities to advance science, train …
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Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on the Assessment of NASA Laboratory Capabilities: Capabilities for the Future
Over the past 5 years or more, there has been a steady and significant decrease in NASA’s laboratory capabilities, including equipment, maintenance, and facility upgrades. This adversely affects the …
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Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on the Assessment of NASA Laboratory Capabilities: Capabilities for the Future
Over the past 5 years or more, there has been a steady and significant decrease in NASA’s laboratory capabilities, including equipment, maintenance, and facility upgrades. This adversely affects the …
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Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee for the Decadal Survey on Biological and Physical Sciences in Space: Life and Physical Sciences Research for a New Era of Space Exploration
In response to requests from Congress, NASA asked the National Research Council to undertake a decadal survey of life and physical sciences in microgravity. Developed in consultation with members of …
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€15.45
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee to Review Near-Earth-Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies: Defending Planet Earth
The United States spends approximately $4 million each year searching for near-Earth objects (NEOs). The objective is to detect those that may collide with Earth. The majority of this funding support …
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€51.07
Committee on Cost Growth in NASA Earth and Space Science Missions & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Controlling Cost Growth of NASA Earth and Space Science Missions
Cost and schedule growth is a problem experienced by many types of projects in many fields of endeavor. Based on prior studies of cost growth in NASA and Department of Defense projects, this book ide …
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Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee for a Decadal Survey of Astronomy and Astrophysics: New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Driven by discoveries, and enabled by leaps in technology and imagination, our understanding of the universe has changed dramatically during the course of the last few decades. The fields of astronom …
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Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee for the Decadal Survey on Biological and Physical Sciences in Space: Life and Physical Sciences Research for a New Era of Space Exploration
In response to requests from Congress, NASA asked the National Research Council to undertake a decadal survey of life and physical sciences in microgravity. Developed in consultation with members of …
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Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee for a Decadal Survey of Astronomy and Astrophysics: Panel Reports-New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Every 10 years the National Research Council releases a survey of astronomy and astrophysics outlining priorities for the coming decade. The most recent survey, titled New Worlds, New Horizons in Ast …
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€54.02
Committee on Cost Growth in NASA Earth and Space Science Missions & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Controlling Cost Growth of NASA Earth and Space Science Missions
Cost and schedule growth is a problem experienced by many types of projects in many fields of endeavor. Based on prior studies of cost growth in NASA and Department of Defense projects, this book ide …
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Committee on Assessment of Impediments to Interagency Cooperation on Space and Earth Science Missions & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of Impediments to Interagency Collaboration on Space and Earth Science Missions
Through an examination of case studies, agency briefings, and existing reports, and drawing on personal knowledge and direct experience, the Committee on Assessment of Impediments to Interagency Coop …
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Board on Physics and Astronomy & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Report of the Panel on Implementing Recommendations from the New Worlds, New Horizons Decadal Survey
The 2010 Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey report, New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics (NWNH), outlines a scientifically exciting and programmatically integrated plan for b …
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€3.85
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee for the Decadal Survey on Biological and Physical Sciences in Space: Recapturing a Future for Space Exploration
More than four decades have passed since a human first set foot on the Moon. Great strides have been made in our understanding of what is required to support an enduring human presence in space, as e …
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Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on a Decadal Strategy for Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics): Solar and Space Physics
From the interior of the Sun, to the upper atmosphere and near-space environment of Earth, and outward to a region far beyond Pluto where the Sun’s influence wanes, advances during the past decade in …
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Committee on the Scientific Context for Space Exploration & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Science in NASA’s Vision for Space Exploration
In January 2004, President Bush announced a new space policy directed at human and robotic exploration of space. The National Academies released a report at the same time that independently addressed …
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€21.74
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate: Utilization of Operational Environmental Satellite Data
The system of satellites in place to provide environmental data-data to monitor events such as forest fires and floods; to make weather predictions; and to assess crops, transportation impacts, fishe …
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€60.48
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on the Assessment of Options for Extending the Life of the Hubble Space Telescope: Assessment of Options for Extending the Life of the Hubble Space Telescope
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has operated continuously since 1990. During that time, four space shuttle-based service missions were launched, three of which added major observational capabilities …
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€45.65
Committee on Solar and Space Physics & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Exploration of the Outer Heliosphere and the Local Interstellar Medium
This report is the summary of a workshop held in May 2003 by the Space Studies Board’s Committee on Solar and Space Physics to synthesize understanding of the physics of the outer heliosphere and the …
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€30.87
Committee on the Assessment of the Role of Solar and Space Physics in NASA’s Space Exploration Initiative & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Solar and Space Physics and Its Role in Space Exploration
In February 2004, the President announced a new goal for NASA; to use humans and robots together to explore the Moon, Mars, and beyond. In response to this initiative, NASA has adopted new exploratio …
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€30.63
Committee on Solar and Space Physics & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Plasma Physics of the Local Cosmos
Solar and space physics is the study of solar system phenomena that occur in the plasma state. Examples include sunspots, the solar wind, planetary magnetospheres, radiation belts, and the aurora. Wh …
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Committee on Earth Studies & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Steps to Facilitate Principal-Investigator-Led Earth Science Missions
Principal-investigator (PI) Earth science missions are small, focused science projects involving relatively small spacecraft. The selected PI is responsible for the scientific and programmatic succes …
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€30.86
Committee on Solar and Space Physics & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Sun to the Earth – and Beyond
This volume, The Sun to the Earth-and Beyond: Panel Reports, is a compilation of the reports from five National Research Council (NRC) panels convened as part of a survey in solar and space physics f …
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€77.13
Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of Mars Science and Mission Priorities
Within the Office of Space Science of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) special importance is attached to exploration of the planet Mars, because it is the most like Earth of t …
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€50.08
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate: Satellite Observations of the Earth’s Environment
This report addresses the transition of research satellites, instruments, and calculations into operational service for accurately observing and predicting the Earth’s environment. These transitions, …
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€51.35
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Using Remote Sensing in State and Local Government
Advances in spatial, spectral, and temporal resolution over the past several years have greatly expanded opportunities for practical applications of remote sensing data. To explore the implications o …
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€42.14
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Toward New Partnerships In Remote Sensing
The technical, scientific, policy, and institutional environment for conducting Earth science research has been changing rapidly over the past few decades. Changes in the technical environment are du …
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€48.89
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Sun to the Earth — and Beyond
The sun is the source of energy for life on earth and is the strongest modulator of the human physical environment. In fact, the Sun’s influence extends throughout the solar system, both through phot …
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Board on Life Sciences & Committee on the Origins and Evolution of Life: Life in the Universe
The past decade has seen a remarkable revolution in genomic research, the discoveries of extreme environments in which organisms can live and even flourish on Earth, the identification of past and po …
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€48.79
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on Precursor Measurements Necessary to Support Human Operations on the Surface of Mars: Safe on Mars
This study, commissioned by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), examines the role of robotic exploration missions in assessing the risks to the first human missions to Mars. Onl …
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Board on Life Sciences & Committee on the Origins and Evolution of Life: Signs of Life
A workshop to assess the science and technology of life detection techniques was organized by the Committee on the Origins and Evolution of Life (COEL) of the Board on Life Sciences (BLS) and the Spa …
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Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Quarantine and Certification of Martian Samples
One of the highest-priority activities in the planetary sciences identified in published reports of the Space Studies Board’s Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration (COMPLEX) and in reports of …
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Committee on Earth Studies & National Research Council: Issues in the Integration of Research and Operational Satellite Systems for Climate Research
Currently, the Departments of Defense (DOD) and Commerce (DOC) acquire and operate separate polarorbiting environmental satellite systems that collect data needed for military and civil weather forec …
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Committee on Space Biology and Medicine & National Research Council: Review of NASA’s Biomedical Research Program
The 1998 Committee on Space Biology and Medicine (CSBM) report A Strategy for Research in Space Biology and Medicine in the New Century assessed the known and potential effects of spaceflight on biol …
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National Research Council & Space Studies Board: Future Biotechnology Research on the International Space Station
Under current NASA plans, investigations in the area of biotechnology will be a significant component of the life sciences research to be conducted on the International Space Station (ISS). They enco …
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Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate & Committee on Solar and Space Physics: Radiation and the International Space Station
A major objective of the International Space Station is learning how to cope with the inherent risks of human spaceflighthow to live and work in space for extended periods. The construction of the st …
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Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Size Limits of Very Small Microorganisms
How small can a free-living organism be? On the surface, this question is straightforward-in principle, the smallest cells can be identified and measured. But understanding what factors determine thi …
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Committee on Microgravity Research & National Research Council: Microgravity Research in Support of Technologies for the Human Exploration and Development of Space and Planetary Bodies
The frontier represented by the near solar system confronts humanity with intriguing challenges and opportunities. With the inception of the Human Exploration and Development of Space (HEDS) enterpri …
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€70.17
Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Science Strategy for the Exploration of Europa
Since its discovery in 1610, Europaone of Jupiter’s four large moonshas been an object of interest to astronomers and planetary scientists. Much of this interest stems from observations made by NASA’ …
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€49.08
Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Scientific Rationale for Mobility in Planetary Environments
For the last several decades, the Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration (COMPLEX) has advocated a systematic approach to exploration of the solar system; that is, the information and understan …
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Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Supporting Research and Data Analysis in NASA’s Science Programs
Effective science, clearly a mandate for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), involves asking significant questions about the physical and biological world and seeking definitive …
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Committee on Space Biology and Medicine & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Strategy for Research in Space Biology and Medicine in the New Century
Construction of the international space station, scheduled to start in late 1998, ushers in a new era for laboratory sciences in space. This is especially true for space life sciences, which include …
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Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Evaluating the Biological Potential in Samples Returned from Planetary Satellites and Small Solar System Bodies
For the first time since the Apollo program, NASA and space agencies abroad have plans to bring samples to Earth from elsewhere in the solar system. There are missions in various stages of definition …
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Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Exploration of Near Earth Objects
Comets and asteroids are in some sense the fossils of the solar system. They have avoided most of the drastic physical processing that shaped the planets and thus represent more closely the propertie …
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Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Exploring the Trans-Neptunian Solar System
In the last decade, our knowledge of the outer solar system has been transformed as a result of the Voyager 2 encounter with Neptune and its satellite Triton and from Earth-based observations of the …
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Committee on Human Exploration & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Human Exploration of Space
During 1988, the National Research Council’s Space Science Board reorganized itself to more effectively address NASA’s advisory needs. The Board’s scope was broadened: it was renamed the Space Studie …
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Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Mars Sample Return
The Space Studies Board of the National Research Council (NRC) serves as the primary adviser to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on planetary protection policy, the purpose of …
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Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Radiation Hazards to Crews of Interplanetary Missions
NASA’s long-range plans include possible human exploratory missions to the moon and Mars within the next quarter century. Such missions beyond low Earth orbit will expose crews to transient radiation …
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Committee on Heliophysics Performance Assessment & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Performance Assessment of NASA’s Heliophysics Program
Since the 1990s, the pace of discovery in the field of solar and space physics has accelerated, largely owing to NASA investments in its Heliophysics Great Observatory fleet of spacecraft. These enab …
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€30.72
Committee on the Review of Planetary Protection Requirements for Mars Sample Return Missions & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of Planetary Protection Requirements for Mars Sample Return Missions
NASA maintains a planetary protection policy to avoid the forward biological contamination of other worlds by terrestrial organisms, and back biological contamination of Earth from the return of extr …
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€30.87
Committee on the Societal and Economic Impacts of Severe Space Weather Events: A Workshop & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Severe Space Weather Events-Understanding Societal and Economic Impacts
The adverse effects of extreme space weather on modern technologypower grid outages, high-frequency communication blackouts, spacecraft anomaliesare well known and well documented, and the physical p …
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€21.91
Committee on a Strategy to Mitigate the Impact of Sensor Descopes and Demanifests on the NPOESS and GOES-R Spacecraft & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Ensuring the Climate Record from the NPOESS and GOES-R Spacecraft
In 2000, the nation’s next-generation National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) program anticipated purchasing six satellites for $6.5 billion, with a first launch i …
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€61.44
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on Science Opportunities Enabled by NASA’s Constellation System: Launching Science
In January 2004 NASA was given a new policy direction known as the Vision for Space Exploration. That plan, now renamed the United States Space Exploration Policy, called for sending human and roboti …
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Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on Science Opportunities Enabled by NASA’s Constellation System: Science Opportunities Enabled by NASA’s Constellation System
To begin implementation of the Vision for Space Exploration (recently renamed United States Space Exploration Policy), NASA has begun development of new launch vehicles and a human-carrying spacecraf …
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Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: United States Civil Space Policy
In 2004, the NRC released a workshop report about the future direction of the U.S. civil space program. At the same time, the Administration announced the Vision for Space Exploration, and in June 20 …
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Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Space Science and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations
ITAR, which controls defense trade, includes the U.S. Munitions List (USML) which specifies categories of defense articles and services covered by the regulations. In 1999, space satellites were adde …
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Committee on Earth Science and Applications from Space: A Community Assessment and Strategy for the Future & National Research Council: Satellite Observations to Benefit Science and Society
Satellite Observations to Benefit Science and Society: Recommended Missions for the Next Decade brings the next ten years into focus for the Earth and environmental science community with a prioritiz …
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Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on NASA’s Beyond Einstein Program: An Architecture for Implementation: NASA’s Beyond Einstein Program
"Beyond Einstein science" is a term that applies to a set of new scientific challenges at the intersection of physics and astrophysics. Observations of the cosmos now have the potential to …
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€60.33
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on an Astrobiology Strategy for the Exploration of Mars: Astrobiology Strategy for the Exploration of Mars
Three recent developments have greatly increased interest in the search for life on Mars. The first is new information about the Martian environment including evidence of a watery past and the possib …
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€46.40
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on the Limits of Organic Life in Planetary Systems: Limits of Organic Life in Planetary Systems
The search for life in the solar system and beyond has to date been governed by a model based on what we know about life on Earth (terran life). Most of NASA’s mission planning is focused on location …
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€41.93
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on Meeting the Workforce Needs for the National Vision for Space Exploration: Building a Better NASA Workforce
The Vision for Space Exploration (VSE) announced by President George W. Bush in 2004 sets NASA and the nation on a bold path to return to the Moon and one day put a human on Mars. The long-term endea …
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Committee on NASA Astronomy Science Centers & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Portals to the Universe
The astronomy science centers established by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to serve as the interfaces between astronomy missions and the community of scientists who utilize …
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Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Decadal Science Strategy Surveys
The Workshop on Decadal Science Strategy Surveys was held on November 14-16, 2006, to promote discussions of the use of National Research Council (NRC) decadal surveys for developing and implementing …
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Board on Physics and Astronomy & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Performance Assessment of NASA’s Astrophysics Program
While a number of remarkable discoveries in astronomy and astrophysics have taken place over the past 20 years, many important questions remain. Continued progress in these fields will require NASA’s …
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Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Options to Ensure the Climate Record from the NPOESS and GOES-R Spacecraft
In 2000, the nations next-generation National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) program anticipated purchasing six satellites for $6.5 billion, with a first launch in …
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€25.72
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on Priorities for Space Science Enabled by Nuclear Power and Propulsion: Priorities in Space Science Enabled by Nuclear Power and Propulsion
In 2003, NASA began an R&D effort to develop nuclear power and propulsion systems for solar system exploration. This activity, renamed Project Prometheus in 2004, was initiated because of the inheren …
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€70.61
Committee on Preventing the Forward Contamination of Mars & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Preventing the Forward Contamination of Mars
Recent spacecraft and robotic probes to Mars have yielded data that are changing our understanding significantly about the possibility of existing or past life on that planet. Coupled with advances i …
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Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Board on Health Sciences Policy: Risk Reduction Strategy for Human Exploration of Space
Extending the spatial and temporal boundaries of human space flight is an important goal for the nation and for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). However, human space flight r …
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Committee on Principal-Investigator-Led Missions in the Space Sciences & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Principal-Investigator-Led Missions in the Space Sciences
Principal Investigator-Led (PI-led) missions are an important element of NASA’s spacescience enterprise. While several NRC studies have considered aspects of PI-ledmissions in the course of other stu …
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€47.49
Ad Hoc Committee on the Solar System Radiation Environment and NASA’s Vision for Space Exploration: A Workshop & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Space Radiation Hazards and the Vision for Space Exploration
Fulfilling the President’s Vision for Space Exploration (VSE) will require overcoming many challenges. Among these are the hazards of space radiation to crews traveling to the Moon and Mars. To explo …
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Committee to Review the Next Decade Mars Architecture & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of NASA’s Mars Architecture 2007-2016
The United States and the former Soviet Union have sent spacecraft to mars as early as 1966, with Mars’ exploration being priority for NASA spacecraft. Both sides, however, have failed as well as suc …
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Committee on an Assessment of Balance in NASA’s Science Programs & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of Balance in NASA’s Science Programs
When the space exploration initiative was announced, Congress asked the NRC to reviewthe science NASA proposed to carryout under the initiative. It also asked the NRC toassess whether this program wo …
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Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on Meeting the Workforce Needs for the National Vision for Space Exploration: Issues Affecting the Future of the U.S. Space Science and Engineering Workforce
In January 2006, the President announced a new civilian space policy focusing on exploration. As part of its preparations to implement that policy, NASA asked the NRC to explore long-range science an …
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€30.42
Ad Hoc Committee on Distributed Arrays of Small Instruments for Research and Monitoring in Solar-Terrestrial Physics: A Workshop & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Distributed Arrays of Small Instruments for Solar-Terrestrial Research
A recommendation of the NRC’s decadal survey in solar and space physics, published in 2002, was the Small Instrument Distributed Ground-Based Network, which would provide global-scale ionospheric and …
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Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Review of NASA Plans for the International Space Station
In January 2004, President Bush announced a new space policy directed at human and robotic exploration of space. In June 2004, the President’s Commission on Implementation of United States Space Expl …
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Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Review of Goals and Plans for NASA’s Space and Earth Sciences
Both the President’s commission on how to implement the President’s space exploration initiative and Congress asked the NRC undertake an assessment and review of the science proposed to be carried ou …
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Committee on Earth Science and Applications from Space: A Community Assessment and Strategy for the Future & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Earth Science and Applications from Space
The Earth is a dynamic planet whose changes and variations affect our communications, energy, health, food, housing, and transportation infrastructure. Understanding these changes requires a range of …
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€37.31
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on the Origins and Evolution of Life: Astrophysical Context of Life
In 1997, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) formed the National Astrobiology Institute to coordinate and fund research into the origins, distribution, and fate of life in the un …
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Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics: Atacama Large Millimeter Array
The 1991 NRC decadal survey for astronomy and astrophysics included a project called the Millimeter Array (MMA). This instrument would be an array of millimeter-wavelength telescopes intended to capt …
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€21.68
Astronomy and Astrophysics Survey Committee & Board on Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy and Astrophysics in the New Millennium
In preparing the report, Astronomy and Astrophysics in the New Millenium, the AASC made use of a series of panel reports that address various aspects of ground- and space-based astronomy and astrophy …
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€70.38
Astronomy and Astrophysics Survey Committee & Board on Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy and Astrophysics in the New Millennium
In this new book, a distinguished panel makes recommendations for the nation’s programs in astronomy and astrophysics, including a number of new initiatives for observing the universe. With the goal …
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€61.90
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on the Organization and Management of Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics: U.S. Astronomy and Astrophysics
In its fiscal year 2002 budget summary document the Bush administration expressed concernbased in part on the findings and conclusions of two National Research Council studiesabout recent trends in t …
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Committee on Earth Studies & National Research Council: Role of Small Satellites in NASA and NOAA Earth Observation Programs
Remote observations of Earth from space serve an extraordinarily broad range of purposes, resulting in extraordinary demands on those at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the …
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€41.15
Ad Hoc Committee on the Assessment of Mission Size Trade-offs for Earth and Space Science Missions & National Research Council: Assessment of Mission Size Trade-offs for NASA’s Earth and Space Science Missions
Assessment of Mission Size Trade-offs for NASA’s Earth and Space Science Missions addresses fundamental issues of mission architecture in the nation’s scientific space program and responds to the FY9 …
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€40.96
Committee on Earth Studies & National Research Council: Issues in the Integration of Research and Operational Satellite Systems for Climate Research
This is the second of two Space Studies Board reports that address the complex issue of incorporating the needs of climate research into the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellit …
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Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics: Federal Funding of Astronomical Research
The Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics (CAA), at its meeting on September 8, 1997, was briefed on the legislative report accompanying the bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 1998 a …
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Committee on the Scientific Context for Exploration of the Moon & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Scientific Context for Exploration of the Moon
Because of the Moon’s unique place in the evolution of rocky worlds, it is a prime focus of NASA’s space exploration vision. Currently NASA is defining and implementing a series of robotic orbital an …
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€62.78
Committee on New Opportunities in Solar System Exploration: An Evaluation of the New Frontiers Announcement of Opportunity & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Opening New Frontiers in Space
The New Frontiers Program was created by NASA in 2002 at the recommendation of the NRC’s decadal survey for solar system research. In order to optimize solar system research, the NRC recommended a se …
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Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee for a Decadal Survey of Astronomy and Astrophysics: New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Driven by discoveries, and enabled by leaps in technology and imagination, our understanding of the universe has changed dramatically during the course of the last few decades. The fields of astronom …
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€56.49
Committee on the Planetary Science Decadal Survey & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Vision and Voyages for Planetary Science in the Decade 2013-2022
In recent years, planetary science has seen a tremendous growth in new knowledge. Deposits of water ice exist at the Moon’s poles. Discoveries on the surface of Mars point to an early warm wet climat …
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Committee on the Planetary Science Decadal Survey & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Vision and Voyages for Planetary Science in the Decade 2013-2022
In recent years, planetary science has seen a tremendous growth in new knowledge. Deposits of water ice exist at the Moon’s poles. Discoveries on the surface of Mars point to an early warm wet climat …
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€57.35
Committee on Assessing Requirements for Sustained Ocean Color Research and Operations & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Assessing the Requirements for Sustained Ocean Color Research and Operations
The ocean is a fundamental component of the earth’s biosphere. It covers roughly 70 percent of Earth’s surface and plays a pivotal role in the cycling of life’s building blocks, such as nitrogen, car …
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Committee on Assessing Requirements for Sustained Ocean Color Research and Operations & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Assessing the Requirements for Sustained Ocean Color Research and Operations
The ocean is a fundamental component of the earth’s biosphere. It covers roughly 70 percent of Earth’s surface and plays a pivotal role in the cycling of life’s building blocks, such as nitrogen, car …
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€42.14
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee for a Decadal Survey of Astronomy and Astrophysics: Panel Reports-New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Every 10 years the National Research Council releases a survey of astronomy and astrophysics outlining priorities for the coming decade. The most recent survey, titled New Worlds, New Horizons in Ast …
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€56.60
Committee on Assessment of Impediments to Interagency Cooperation on Space and Earth Science Missions & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of Impediments to Interagency Collaboration on Space and Earth Science Missions
Through an examination of case studies, agency briefings, and existing reports, and drawing on personal knowledge and direct experience, the Committee on Assessment of Impediments to Interagency Coop …
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Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Sharing the Adventure with the Public
On November 8-10, 2010, the National Research Council’s Space Studies Board (SSB) held a public workshop on how NASA and its associated science and exploration communities communicate with the public …
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Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Sharing the Adventure with the Public
On November 8-10, 2010, the National Research Council’s Space Studies Board (SSB) held a public workshop on how NASA and its associated science and exploration communities communicate with the public …
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Committee for Evaluation of Space Radiation Cancer Risk Model & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Technical Evaluation of the NASA Model for Cancer Risk to Astronauts Due to Space Radiation
NASA’s current missions to the International Space Station (ISS) and potential future exploration missions involving extended stays by astronauts on the lunar surface, as well as the possibility of n …
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€3.84
Committee for Evaluation of Space Radiation Cancer Risk Model & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Technical Evaluation of the NASA Model for Cancer Risk to Astronauts Due to Space Radiation
NASA’s current missions to the International Space Station (ISS) and potential future exploration missions involving extended stays by astronauts on the lunar surface, as well as the possibility of n …
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€37.31
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on the Assessment of a Plan for U.S. Participation in Euclid: Assessment of a Plan for U.S. Participation in Euclid
NASA proposed to make a hardware contribution to the European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Euclid mission in exchange for U.S. membership on the Euclid Science Team and science data access. The Euclid miss …
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Committee on Planetary Protection Standards for Icy Bodies in the Outer Solar System & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of Planetary Protection Requirements for Spacecraft Missions to Icy Solar System Bodies
NASA’s exploration of planets and satellites during the past 50 years has led to the discovery of traces of water ice throughout the solar system and prospects for large liquid water reservoirs benea …
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Committee on Planetary Protection Standards for Icy Bodies in the Outer Solar System & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of Planetary Protection Requirements for Spacecraft Missions to Icy Solar System Bodies
NASA’s exploration of planets and satellites during the past 50 years has led to the discovery of traces of water ice throughout the solar system and prospects for large liquid water reservoirs benea …
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€44.83
Committee on the Assessment of NASA’s Earth Science Program & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Earth Science and Applications from Space
Understanding the effects of natural and human-induced changes on the global environment and their implications requires a foundation of integrated observations of land, sea, air and space, on which …
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Committee on the Assessment of NASA’s Earth Science Program & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Earth Science and Applications from Space
Understanding the effects of natural and human-induced changes on the global environment and their implications requires a foundation of integrated observations of land, sea, air and space, on which …
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€46.20
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on a Decadal Strategy for Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics): Solar and Space Physics
From the interior of the Sun, to the upper atmosphere and near-space environment of Earth, and outward to a region far beyond Pluto where the Sun’s influence wanes, advances during the past decade in …
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€89.31
Committee on the Effects of Solar Variability on Earth’s Climate & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Effects of Solar Variability on Earth’s Climate
On September 8-9, 2011, experts in solar physics, climate models, paleoclimatology, and atmospheric science assembled at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado for a …
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Committee on the Effects of Solar Variability on Earth’s Climate & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Effects of Solar Variability on Earth’s Climate
On September 8-9, 2011, experts in solar physics, climate models, paleoclimatology, and atmospheric science assembled at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado for a …
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Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee for the Decadal Survey on Biological and Physical Sciences in Space: Recapturing a Future for Space Exploration
More than four decades have passed since a human first set foot on the Moon. Great strides have been made in our understanding of what is required to support an enduring human presence in space, as e …
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€70.41
Committee on Implementation of a Sustained Land Imaging Program & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Landsat and Beyond
In 1972 NASA launched the Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ETRS), now known as Landsat 1, and on February 11, 2013 launched Landsat 8. Currently the United States has collected 40 continuous yea …
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€3.79
Committee on Implementation of a Sustained Land Imaging Program & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Landsat and Beyond
In 1972 NASA launched the Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ETRS), now known as Landsat 1, and on February 11, 2013 launched Landsat 8. Currently the United States has collected 40 continuous yea …
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€39.68
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Lessons Learned in Decadal Planning in Space Science
The National Research Council (NRC) has been conducting decadal surveys in the Earth and space sciences since 1964, and released the latest five surveys in the past 5 years, four of which were only c …
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Board on Physics and Astronomy & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Lessons Learned in Decadal Planning in Space Science
The National Research Council (NRC) has been conducting decadal surveys in the Earth and space sciences since 1964, and released the latest five surveys in the past 5 years, four of which were only c …
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Committee on the Assessment of the NASA Science Mission Directorate 2014 Science Plan & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Review of the Draft 2014 Science Mission Directorate Science Plan
NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) is engaged in the final stages of a comprehensive, agency-wide effort to develop a new strategic plan at a time when its budget is under considerable stress. …
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Committee on the Assessment of the NASA Science Mission Directorate 2014 Science Plan & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Review of the Draft 2014 Science Mission Directorate Science Plan
NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) is engaged in the final stages of a comprehensive, agency-wide effort to develop a new strategic plan at a time when its budget is under considerable stress. …
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€33.42
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Opportunities for High-Power, High-Frequency Transmitters to Advance Ionospheric/Thermospheric Research
Opportunities for High-Power, High-Frequency Transmitters to Advance Ionospheric/Thermospheric Research is the summary of a workshop convened by the Space Studies Board of the National Research Counc …
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Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Opportunities for High-Power, High-Frequency Transmitters to Advance Ionospheric/Thermospheric Research
Opportunities for High-Power, High-Frequency Transmitters to Advance Ionospheric/Thermospheric Research is the summary of a workshop convened by the Space Studies Board of the National Research Counc …
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Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on an Assessment of the Astrophysics Focused Telescope Assets (AFTA) Mission Concepts: Evaluation of the Implementation of WFIRST/AFTA in the Context of New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics (PDF
Evaluation of the Implementation of WFIRST in the Context of New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics assesses whether the proposed Astrophysics Focused Telescope Assets (AFTA) design r …
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Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on an Assessment of the Astrophysics Focused Telescope Assets (AFTA) Mission Concepts: Evaluation of the Implementation of WFIRST/AFTA in the Context of New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics (ePU
Evaluation of the Implementation of WFIRST in the Context of New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics assesses whether the proposed Astrophysics Focused Telescope Assets (AFTA) design r …
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Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on Human Spaceflight: Pathways to Exploration
The United States has publicly funded its human spaceflight program on a continuous basis for more than a half-century, through three wars and a half-dozen recessions, from the early Mercury and Gemi …
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Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on Human Spaceflight: Pathways to Exploration
The United States has publicly funded its human spaceflight program on a continuous basis for more than a half-century, through three wars and a half-dozen recessions, from the early Mercury and Gemi …
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Committee on International Space Programs & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: U.S.-European Collaboration in Space Science
U.S.-European Collaboration in Space Science reviews the past 30 years of space-based research across the Atlantic. The book, which was prepared jointly with the European Space Science Committee (und …
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Board on Science Education & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Sharing the Adventure with the Student
On December 2-3, 2014, the Space Studies Board and the Board on Science Education of the National Research Council held a workshop on the NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD) education program – &q …
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Board on Science Education & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Sharing the Adventure with the Student
On December 2-3, 2014, the Space Studies Board and the Board on Science Education of the National Research Council held a workshop on the NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD) education program – &q …
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Committee on Survey of Surveys: Lessons Learned from the Decadal Survey Process & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Space Science Decadal Surveys
The National Research Council has conducted 11 decadal surveys in the Earth and space sciences since 1964 and released the latest four surveys in the past 8 years. The decadal surveys are notable in …
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Committee on Survey of Surveys: Lessons Learned from the Decadal Survey Process & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Space Science Decadal Surveys
The National Research Council has conducted 11 decadal surveys in the Earth and space sciences since 1964 and released the latest four surveys in the past 8 years. The decadal surveys are notable in …
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€61.77
Committee on a Framework for Analyzing the Needs for Continuity of NASA-Sustained Remote Sensing Observations of the Earth from Space & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Continuity of NASA Earth Observations from Space
NASA’s Earth Science Division (ESD) conducts a wide range of satellite and suborbital missions to observe Earth’s land surface and interior, biosphere, atmosphere, cryosphere, and oceans as part of a …
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Committee on a Framework for Analyzing the Needs for Continuity of NASA-Sustained Remote Sensing Observations of the Earth from Space & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Continuity of NASA Earth Observations from Space
NASA’s Earth Science Division (ESD) conducts a wide range of satellite and suborbital missions to observe Earth’s land surface and interior, biosphere, atmosphere, cryosphere, and oceans as part of a …
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Committee to Review the MEPAG Report on Mars Special Regions & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Review of the MEPAG Report on Mars Special Regions
Planetary protection is a guiding principle in the design of an interplanetary mission, aiming to prevent biological contamination of both the target celestial body and the Earth. The protection of h …
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Committee to Review the MEPAG Report on Mars Special Regions & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Review of the MEPAG Report on Mars Special Regions
Planetary protection is a guiding principle in the design of an interplanetary mission, aiming to prevent biological contamination of both the target celestial body and the Earth. The protection of h …
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Committee on Achieving Science Goals with CubeSats & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Achieving Science with CubeSats
Space-based observations have transformed our understanding of Earth, its environment, the solar system and the universe at large. During past decades, driven by increasingly advanced science questio …
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Committee on Achieving Science Goals with CubeSats & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Achieving Science with CubeSats
Space-based observations have transformed our understanding of Earth, its environment, the solar system and the universe at large. During past decades, driven by increasingly advanced science questio …
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Board on Physics and Astronomy & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: New Worlds, New Horizons
New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics (NWNH), the report of the 2010 decadal survey of astronomy and astrophysics, put forward a vision for a decade of transformative exploration at …
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Board on Physics and Astronomy & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: New Worlds, New Horizons
New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics (NWNH), the report of the 2010 decadal survey of astronomy and astrophysics, put forward a vision for a decade of transformative exploration at …
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Committee on NASA Science Mission Extensions & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Extending Science
NASA operates a large number of space science missions, approximately three-quarters of which are currently in their extended operations phase. They represent not only a majority of operational space …
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Committee on NASA Science Mission Extensions & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Extending Science
NASA operates a large number of space science missions, approximately three-quarters of which are currently in their extended operations phase. They represent not only a majority of operational space …
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Committee on Assessment of the National Science Foundation’s 2015 Geospace Portfolio Review & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of the National Science Foundation’s 2015 Geospace Portfolio Review
At the request of the Advisory Committee for Geosciences of the National Science Foundation (NSF), a review of the Geospace Section of the NSF Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences was undert …
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Committee on Assessment of the National Science Foundation’s 2015 Geospace Portfolio Review & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of the National Science Foundation’s 2015 Geospace Portfolio Review
At the request of the Advisory Committee for Geosciences of the National Science Foundation (NSF), a review of the Geospace Section of the NSF Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences was undert …
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Committee on the Review of NASA’s Planetary Science Division’s Restructured Research and Analysis Program & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Review of the Restructured Research and Analysis Programs of NASA’s Planetary Science Division
The Research and Analysis (R&A) program managed by NASA’s Planetary Science Division (PSD), supports a broad range of planetary science activities, including the analysis of data from past and curren …
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Committee on the Review of NASA’s Planetary Science Division’s Restructured Research and Analysis Program & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Review of the Restructured Research and Analysis Programs of NASA’s Planetary Science Division (ePUB
The Research and Analysis (R&A) program managed by NASA’s Planetary Science Division (PSD), supports a broad range of planetary science activities, including the analysis of data from past and curren …
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€70.42
Committee on Large Strategic NASA Science Missions: Science Value and Role in a Balanced Portfolio & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Powering Science
NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) currently operates over five dozen missions, with approximately two dozen additional missions in development. These missions span the scientific fields associ …
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€3.85
Committee on Large Strategic NASA Science Missions: Science Value and Role in a Balanced Portfolio & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Powering Science
NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) currently operates over five dozen missions, with approximately two dozen additional missions in development. These missions span the scientific fields associ …
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€76.23
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Space Studies Board: Searching for Life Across Space and Time
The search for life is one of the most active fields in space science and involves a wide variety of scientific disciplines, including planetary science, astronomy and astrophysics, chemistry, biolog …
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Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Space Studies Board: Searching for Life Across Space and Time
The search for life is one of the most active fields in space science and involves a wide variety of scientific disciplines, including planetary science, astronomy and astrophysics, chemistry, biolog …
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€60.14
Committee on the Decadal Survey for Earth Science and Applications from Space & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Thriving on Our Changing Planet
We live on a dynamic Earth shaped by both natural processes and the impacts of humans on their environment. It is in our collective interest to observe and understand our planet, and to predict futur …
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€3.84
Committee on the Decadal Survey for Earth Science and Applications from Space & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Thriving on Our Changing Planet
We live on a dynamic Earth shaped by both natural processes and the impacts of humans on their environment. It is in our collective interest to observe and understand our planet, and to predict futur …
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€179.77
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on a Midterm Assessment of Implementation of the Decadal Survey on Life and Physical Sciences Research at NASA: Midterm Assessment of Implementation of the Decadal Survey on Life and Physical Sciences Re
The 2011 National Research Council decadal survey on biological and physical sciences in space, Recapturing a Future for Space Exploration: Life and Physical Sciences Research for a New Era, was writ …
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€3.82
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on a Midterm Assessment of Implementation of the Decadal Survey on Life and Physical Sciences Research at NASA: Midterm Assessment of Implementation of the Decadal Survey on Life and Physical Sciences Re
The 2011 National Research Council decadal survey on biological and physical sciences in space, Recapturing a Future for Space Exploration: Life and Physical Sciences Research for a New Era, was writ …
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€62.27
Committee on the Review of Planetary Protection Policy Development Processes & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Review and Assessment of Planetary Protection Policy Development Processes
Protecting Earth’s environment and other solar system bodies from harmful contamination has been an important principle throughout the history of space exploration. For decades, the scientific, polit …
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€3.85
Committee on the Review of Planetary Protection Policy Development Processes & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Review and Assessment of Planetary Protection Policy Development Processes
Protecting Earth’s environment and other solar system bodies from harmful contamination has been an important principle throughout the history of space exploration. For decades, the scientific, polit …
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€63.19
Committee on the Review of Progress Toward Implementing the Decadal Survey Vision and Voyages for Planetary Sciences & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Visions into Voyages for Planetary Science in the Decade 2013-2022
In spring 2011 the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine produced a report outlining the next decade in planetary sciences. That report, titled Vision and Voyages for Planetary Sc …
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Committee on the Review of Progress Toward Implementing the Decadal Survey Vision and Voyages for Planetary Sciences & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Visions into Voyages for Planetary Science in the Decade 2013-2022
In spring 2011 the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine produced a report outlining the next decade in planetary sciences. That report, titled Vision and Voyages for Planetary Sc …
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€77.50
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on Exoplanet Science Strategy: Exoplanet Science Strategy
The past decade has delivered remarkable discoveries in the study of exoplanets. Hand-in-hand with these advances, a theoretical understanding of the myriad of processes that dictate the formation an …
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€3.85
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on Exoplanet Science Strategy: Exoplanet Science Strategy
The past decade has delivered remarkable discoveries in the study of exoplanets. Hand-in-hand with these advances, a theoretical understanding of the myriad of processes that dictate the formation an …
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€70.36
Committee on Best Practices for a Future Open Code Policy for NASA Space Science & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Open Source Software Policy Options for NASA Earth and Space Sciences
Modern science is ever more driven by computations and simulations. In particular, the state of the art in space and Earth science often arises from complex simulations of climate, space weather, and …
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€3.83
Committee on Best Practices for a Future Open Code Policy for NASA Space Science & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Open Source Software Policy Options for NASA Earth and Space Sciences
Modern science is ever more driven by computations and simulations. In particular, the state of the art in space and Earth science often arises from complex simulations of climate, space weather, and …
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€42.14
Committee on Astrobiology Science Strategy for the Search for Life in the Universe & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Astrobiology Strategy for the Search for Life in the Universe
Astrobiology is the study of the origin, evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe. It is an inherently interdisciplinary field that encompasses astronomy, biology, geology, helioph …
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€3.82
Committee on Astrobiology Science Strategy for the Search for Life in the Universe & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Astrobiology Strategy for the Search for Life in the Universe
Astrobiology is the study of the origin, evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe. It is an inherently interdisciplinary field that encompasses astronomy, biology, geology, helioph …
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€83.64
Committee on Extraterrestrial Sample Analysis Facilities & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Strategic Investments in Instrumentation and Facilities for Extraterrestrial Sample Curation and Analysis
The United States possesses a treasure-trove of extraterrestrial samples that were returned to Earth via space missions over the past four decades. Analyses of these previously returned samples have …
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€3.85
Committee on Extraterrestrial Sample Analysis Facilities & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Strategic Investments in Instrumentation and Facilities for Extraterrestrial Sample Curation and Analysis
The United States possesses a treasure-trove of extraterrestrial samples that were returned to Earth via space missions over the past four decades. Analyses of these previously returned samples have …
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€70.76
Committee on Planetary Protection Requirements for Sample Return Missions from Martian Moons & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Planetary Protection Classification of Sample Return Missions from the Martian Moons
An international consensus policy to prevent the biological cross-contamination of planetary bodies exists and is maintained by the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) of the International Council f …
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€3.80
Astronomy and Astrophysics Survey Committee & Board on Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy and Astrophysics in the New Millennium
In this new book, a distinguished panel makes recommendations for the nation’s programs in astronomy and astrophysics, including a number of new initiatives for observing the universe. With the goal …
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€34.33
Committee on Space Biology and Medicine & National Research Council: Review of NASA’s Biomedical Research Program
The 1998 Committee on Space Biology and Medicine (CSBM) report A Strategy for Research in Space Biology and Medicine in the New Century assessed the known and potential effects of spaceflight on biol …
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€32.10
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on Precursor Measurements Necessary to Support Human Operations on the Surface of Mars: Safe on Mars
This study, commissioned by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), examines the role of robotic exploration missions in assessing the risks to the first human missions to Mars. Onl …
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€34.66
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Toward New Partnerships In Remote Sensing
The technical, scientific, policy, and institutional environment for conducting Earth science research has been changing rapidly over the past few decades. Changes in the technical environment are du …
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€34.75
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Using Remote Sensing in State and Local Government
Advances in spatial, spectral, and temporal resolution over the past several years have greatly expanded opportunities for practical applications of remote sensing data. To explore the implications o …
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€29.60
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Sun to the Earth — and Beyond
The sun is the source of energy for life on earth and is the strongest modulator of the human physical environment. In fact, the Sun’s influence extends throughout the solar system, both through phot …
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€29.22
Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of Mars Science and Mission Priorities
Within the Office of Space Science of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) special importance is attached to exploration of the planet Mars, because it is the most like Earth of t …
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€34.68
Division on Earth and Life Studies & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Transforming Remote Sensing Data into Information and Applications
Over the past decade renewed interest in practical applications of Earth observations from space has coincided with and been fueled by significant improvements in the availability of remote sensing d …
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€17.98
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on the Origins and Evolution of Life: Signs of Life
A workshop to assess the science and technology of life detection techniques was organized by the Committee on the Origins and Evolution of Life (COEL) of the Board on Life Sciences (BLS) and the Spa …
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€21.31
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on the Organization and Management of Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics: U.S. Astronomy and Astrophysics
In its fiscal year 2002 budget summary document the Bush administration expressed concernbased in part on the findings and conclusions of two National Research Council studiesabout recent trends in t …
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€21.13
Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Quarantine and Certification of Martian Samples
One of the highest-priority activities in the planetary sciences identified in published reports of the Space Studies Board’s Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration (COMPLEX) and in reports of …
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€21.19
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on the Origins and Evolution of Life: Life in the Universe
The past decade has seen a remarkable revolution in genomic research, the discoveries of extreme environments in which organisms can live and even flourish on Earth, the identification of past and po …
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€34.74
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Size Limits of Very Small Microorganisms
How small can a free-living organism be? On the surface, this question is straightforward-in principle, the smallest cells can be identified and measured. But understanding what factors determine thi …
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€38.05
Astronomy and Astrophysics Survey Committee & Board on Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy and Astrophysics in the New Millennium
In preparing the report, Astronomy and Astrophysics in the New Millenium, the AASC made use of a series of panel reports that address various aspects of ground- and space-based astronomy and astrophy …
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€47.56
Committee on Earth Studies & National Research Council: Issues in the Integration of Research and Operational Satellite Systems for Climate Research
Currently, the Departments of Defense (DOD) and Commerce (DOC) acquire and operate separate polarorbiting environmental satellite systems that collect data needed for military and civil weather forec …
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€48.24
Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate & Committee on Solar and Space Physics: Radiation and the International Space Station
A major objective of the International Space Station is learning how to cope with the inherent risks of human spaceflighthow to live and work in space for extended periods. The construction of the st …
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€28.16
Ad Hoc Committee on the Assessment of Mission Size Trade-offs for Earth and Space Science Missions & National Research Council: Assessment of Mission Size Trade-offs for NASA’s Earth and Space Science Missions
Assessment of Mission Size Trade-offs for NASA’s Earth and Space Science Missions addresses fundamental issues of mission architecture in the nation’s scientific space program and responds to the FY9 …
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€28.31
Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Science Strategy for the Exploration of Europa
Since its discovery in 1610, Europaone of Jupiter’s four large moonshas been an object of interest to astronomers and planetary scientists. Much of this interest stems from observations made by NASA’ …
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€34.42
Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Scientific Rationale for Mobility in Planetary Environments
For the last several decades, the Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration (COMPLEX) has advocated a systematic approach to exploration of the solar system; that is, the information and understan …
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€34.42
Committee on Microgravity Research & National Research Council: Microgravity Research in Support of Technologies for the Human Exploration and Development of Space and Planetary Bodies
The frontier represented by the near solar system confronts humanity with intriguing challenges and opportunities. With the inception of the Human Exploration and Development of Space (HEDS) enterpri …
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€64.35
Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Exploring the Trans-Neptunian Solar System
In the last decade, our knowledge of the outer solar system has been transformed as a result of the Voyager 2 encounter with Neptune and its satellite Triton and from Earth-based observations of the …
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€34.42
Committee on Space Biology and Medicine & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Strategy for Research in Space Biology and Medicine in the New Century
Construction of the international space station, scheduled to start in late 1998, ushers in a new era for laboratory sciences in space. This is especially true for space life sciences, which include …
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€48.26
Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Exploration of Near Earth Objects
Comets and asteroids are in some sense the fossils of the solar system. They have avoided most of the drastic physical processing that shaped the planets and thus represent more closely the propertie …
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Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Radiation Hazards to Crews of Interplanetary Missions
NASA’s long-range plans include possible human exploratory missions to the moon and Mars within the next quarter century. Such missions beyond low Earth orbit will expose crews to transient radiation …
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Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Mars Sample Return
The Space Studies Board of the National Research Council (NRC) serves as the primary adviser to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on planetary protection policy, the purpose of …
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€34.70
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate: Satellite Observations of the Earth’s Environment
This report addresses the transition of research satellites, instruments, and calculations into operational service for accurately observing and predicting the Earth’s environment. These transitions, …
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€41.83
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Supporting Research and Data Analysis in NASA’s Science Programs
Effective science, clearly a mandate for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), involves asking significant questions about the physical and biological world and seeking definitive …
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€30.93
Committee on Microgravity Research & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of Directions in Microgravity and Physical Sciences Research at NASA
For thirty years the NASA microgravity program has used space as a tool to study fundamental flow phenomena that are important to fields ranging from combustion science to biotechnology. This book as …
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€30.89
Committee on Solar and Space Physics & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Sun to the Earth – and Beyond
This volume, The Sun to the Earth-and Beyond: Panel Reports, is a compilation of the reports from five National Research Council (NRC) panels convened as part of a survey in solar and space physics f …
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€54.41
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Issues and Opportunities Regarding the U.S. Space Program
Ever since the completion of the Apollo program, there has been a lack of consensus about the future of human spaceflight. The Columbia tragedy in February 2003 rekindled public debate about this que …
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€20.97
Committee on Earth Studies & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Steps to Facilitate Principal-Investigator-Led Earth Science Missions
Principal-investigator (PI) Earth science missions are small, focused science projects involving relatively small spacecraft. The selected PI is responsible for the scientific and programmatic succes …
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€21.23
Committee on Solar and Space Physics & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Exploration of the Outer Heliosphere and the Local Interstellar Medium
This report is the summary of a workshop held in May 2003 by the Space Studies Board’s Committee on Solar and Space Physics to synthesize understanding of the physics of the outer heliosphere and the …
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€21.04
Committee on Solar and Space Physics & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Plasma Physics of the Local Cosmos
Solar and space physics is the study of solar system phenomena that occur in the plasma state. Examples include sunspots, the solar wind, planetary magnetospheres, radiation belts, and the aurora. Wh …
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Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate: Utilization of Operational Environmental Satellite Data
The system of satellites in place to provide environmental data-data to monitor events such as forest fires and floods; to make weather predictions; and to assess crops, transportation impacts, fishe …
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€41.74
Committee on the Assessment of the Role of Solar and Space Physics in NASA’s Space Exploration Initiative & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Solar and Space Physics and Its Role in Space Exploration
In February 2004, the President announced a new goal for NASA; to use humans and robots together to explore the Moon, Mars, and beyond. In response to this initiative, NASA has adopted new exploratio …
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€21.31
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on the Assessment of Options for Extending the Life of the Hubble Space Telescope: Assessment of Options for Extending the Life of the Hubble Space Telescope
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has operated continuously since 1990. During that time, four space shuttle-based service missions were launched, three of which added major observational capabilities …
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€37.23
Committee on the Scientific Context for Space Exploration & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Science in NASA’s Vision for Space Exploration
In January 2004, President Bush announced a new space policy directed at human and robotic exploration of space. The National Academies released a report at the same time that independently addressed …
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€14.69
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on the Origins and Evolution of Life: Astrophysical Context of Life
In 1997, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) formed the National Astrobiology Institute to coordinate and fund research into the origins, distribution, and fate of life in the un …
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€21.19
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics: Atacama Large Millimeter Array
The 1991 NRC decadal survey for astronomy and astrophysics included a project called the Millimeter Array (MMA). This instrument would be an array of millimeter-wavelength telescopes intended to capt …
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€14.72
Committee on Earth Science and Applications from Space: A Community Assessment and Strategy for the Future & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Earth Science and Applications from Space
The Earth is a dynamic planet whose changes and variations affect our communications, energy, health, food, housing, and transportation infrastructure. Understanding these changes requires a range of …
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€25.68
Committee on Earth Studies & National Research Council: Issues in the Integration of Research and Operational Satellite Systems for Climate Research
This is the second of two Space Studies Board reports that address the complex issue of incorporating the needs of climate research into the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellit …
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€21.27
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics: Federal Funding of Astronomical Research
The Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics (CAA), at its meeting on September 8, 1997, was briefed on the legislative report accompanying the bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 1998 a …
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National Research Council & Space Studies Board: Future Biotechnology Research on the International Space Station
Under current NASA plans, investigations in the area of biotechnology will be a significant component of the life sciences research to be conducted on the International Space Station (ISS). They enco …
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Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate & Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Research: Space Physics Paradox
This book investigates and analyzes several disturbing trends in government support for space physics research over the past decade. The authors identify funding and management problems that thwart c …
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€28.95
Committee on Human Exploration & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Human Exploration of Space
During 1988, the National Research Council’s Space Science Board reorganized itself to more effectively address NASA’s advisory needs. The Board’s scope was broadened: it was renamed the Space Studie …
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Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Evaluating the Biological Potential in Samples Returned from Planetary Satellites and Small Solar System Bodies
For the first time since the Apollo program, NASA and space agencies abroad have plans to bring samples to Earth from elsewhere in the solar system. There are missions in various stages of definition …
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€36.59
Committee on Earth Studies & National Research Council: Role of Small Satellites in NASA and NOAA Earth Observation Programs
Remote observations of Earth from space serve an extraordinarily broad range of purposes, resulting in extraordinary demands on those at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the …
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€28.38
Committee on Planetary Biology and Chemical Evolution & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Search for Life’s Origins
The field of planetary biology and chemical evolution draws together experts in astronomy, paleobiology, biochemistry, and space science who work together to understand the evolution of living system …
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€16.09
Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Strategy for the Detection and Study of Other Planetary Systems and Extrasolar Planetary Materials
This volume addresses a new opportunity in the planetary sciencesto extend our exploration outward to discover and study planetary systems that may have formed or are forming around other stars.It co …
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Committee on Preventing the Forward Contamination of Mars & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Preventing the Forward Contamination of Mars
Recent spacecraft and robotic probes to Mars have yielded data that are changing our understanding significantly about the possibility of existing or past life on that planet. Coupled with advances i …
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€38.41
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Review of Goals and Plans for NASA’s Space and Earth Sciences
Both the President’s commission on how to implement the President’s space exploration initiative and Congress asked the NRC undertake an assessment and review of the science proposed to be carried ou …
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€21.27
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Board on Health Sciences Policy: Risk Reduction Strategy for Human Exploration of Space
Extending the spatial and temporal boundaries of human space flight is an important goal for the nation and for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). However, human space flight r …
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Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on Priorities for Space Science Enabled by Nuclear Power and Propulsion: Priorities in Space Science Enabled by Nuclear Power and Propulsion
In 2003, NASA began an R&D effort to develop nuclear power and propulsion systems for solar system exploration. This activity, renamed Project Prometheus in 2004, was initiated because of the inheren …
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€64.39
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Review of NASA Plans for the International Space Station
In January 2004, President Bush announced a new space policy directed at human and robotic exploration of space. In June 2004, the President’s Commission on Implementation of United States Space Expl …
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€21.23
Committee on Principal-Investigator-Led Missions in the Space Sciences & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Principal-Investigator-Led Missions in the Space Sciences
Principal Investigator-Led (PI-led) missions are an important element of NASA’s spacescience enterprise. While several NRC studies have considered aspects of PI-ledmissions in the course of other stu …
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€32.74
Ad Hoc Committee on Distributed Arrays of Small Instruments for Research and Monitoring in Solar-Terrestrial Physics: A Workshop & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Distributed Arrays of Small Instruments for Solar-Terrestrial Research
A recommendation of the NRC’s decadal survey in solar and space physics, published in 2002, was the Small Instrument Distributed Ground-Based Network, which would provide global-scale ionospheric and …
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€21.24
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on Meeting the Workforce Needs for the National Vision for Space Exploration: Issues Affecting the Future of the U.S. Space Science and Engineering Workforce
In January 2006, the President announced a new civilian space policy focusing on exploration. As part of its preparations to implement that policy, NASA asked the NRC to explore long-range science an …
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€21.23
Committee on an Assessment of Balance in NASA’s Science Programs & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of Balance in NASA’s Science Programs
When the space exploration initiative was announced, Congress asked the NRC to reviewthe science NASA proposed to carryout under the initiative. It also asked the NRC toassess whether this program wo …
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€21.12
Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Exploring Organic Environments in the Solar System
The sources, distributions, and transformation of organic compounds in the solar system are active study areas as a means to provide information about the evolution of the solar system and the possib …
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€31.44
Ad Hoc Committee on the Solar System Radiation Environment and NASA’s Vision for Space Exploration: A Workshop & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Space Radiation Hazards and the Vision for Space Exploration
Fulfilling the President’s Vision for Space Exploration (VSE) will require overcoming many challenges. Among these are the hazards of space radiation to crews traveling to the Moon and Mars. To explo …
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€28.25
Committee to Review the Next Decade Mars Architecture & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of NASA’s Mars Architecture 2007-2016
The United States and the former Soviet Union have sent spacecraft to mars as early as 1966, with Mars’ exploration being priority for NASA spacecraft. Both sides, however, have failed as well as suc …
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Committee on the Scientific Context for Exploration of the Moon & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Scientific Context for Exploration of the Moon
Because of the Moon’s unique place in the evolution of rocky worlds, it is a prime focus of NASA’s space exploration vision. Currently NASA is defining and implementing a series of robotic orbital an …
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€14.82
Committee on Earth Science and Applications from Space: A Community Assessment and Strategy for the Future & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Earth Science and Applications from Space
Natural and human-induced changes in Earth’s interior, land surface, biosphere, atmosphere, and oceans affect all aspects of life. Understanding these changes requires a range of observations acquire …
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€42.56
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on the Limits of Organic Life in Planetary Systems: Limits of Organic Life in Planetary Systems
The search for life in the solar system and beyond has to date been governed by a model based on what we know about life on Earth (terran life). Most of NASA’s mission planning is focused on location …
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€30.16
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Performance Assessment of NASA’s Astrophysics Program
While a number of remarkable discoveries in astronomy and astrophysics have taken place over the past 20 years, many important questions remain. Continued progress in these fields will require NASA’s …
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€21.31
Committee on Near Earth Object Observations in the Infrared and Visible Wavelengths & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Finding Hazardous Asteroids Using Infrared and Visible Wavelength Telescopes
Near Earth objects (NEOs) have the potential to cause significant damage on Earth. In December 2018, an asteroid exploded in the upper atmosphere over the Bering Sea (western Pacific Ocean) with the …
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€69.87
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Continuous Improvement of NASA’s Innovation Ecosystem
On November 29-30, 2018, in Washington, D.C., the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held the Workshop on the Continuous Improvement of NASA’s Innovation Ecosystem. The worksho …
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Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Planetary Protection: Report Series: Committee on Planetary Protection
Under U.S. policy and international treaty, the goals of planetary protection are to avoid both adverse changes in Earth’s environment caused by introducing extraterrestrial matter and harmful contam …
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€19.29
Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate & Committee on Future Use of NASA Airborne Platforms to Advance Earth Science Priorities: Airborne Platforms to Advance NASA Earth System Science Priorities
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and other U.S. science research agencies operate a fleet of research aircraft and other airborne platforms that offer diverse capabilities. To …
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€69.87
Committee for the Space Weather Operations and Research Infrastructure Workshop & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Planning the Future Space Weather Operations and Research Infrastructure
In response to a request from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration – and with the support of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Science Foundation – the …
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€52.75
Committee on the NASA Science Mission Directorate Science Plan & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Review of the Draft 2019 Science Mission Directorate Science Plan
NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) ties together diverse researchers, sponsors, and resources to develop the science community’s understanding of the universe. Within scientific organizations l …
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Committee on the Review of Progress Toward Implementing the Decadal Survey — Solar and Space Physics: A Science for a Technological Society & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Progress Toward Implementation of the 2013 Decadal Survey fo
The 2013 report Solar and Space Physics; A Science for a Technological Society outlined a program of basic and applied research for the period 2013-2022. This publication describes the most significa …
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Committee on Solar and Space Physics & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Report Series: Committee on Solar and Space Physics
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Committee to Review the Report of the NASA Planetary Protection Independent Review Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of the Report of NASA’s Planetary Protection Independent Review Board
The goal of planetary protection is to control, to the degree possible, the biological cross-contamination of planetary bodies. Guidelines developed by the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) are us …
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Committee on Astrobiology and Planetary Science & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Report Series: Committee on Astrobiology and Planetary Science
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Committee on Biological and Physical Sciences in Space & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Report Series: Committee on Biological and Physical Sciences in Space: Using Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) to Achieve Lunar Biological and P
After several decades since the last human visit, NASA is planning to return to the Moon, this time not only to visit but also to carry out extensive scientific experiments, establish a habitat occup …
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Board on Science Education & Committee on Increasing Diversity and Inclusion in the Leadership of Competed Space Missions: Advancing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in the Leadership of Competed Space Missions
Fostering diverse and inclusive teams that are highly skilled, innovative, and productive is critical for maintaining U.S. leadership in space exploration. In recent years, NASA has taken steps to ad …
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Committee on the Review of Lessons-Learned in the Implementation of NASA’s Earth Venture Class & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Lessons Learned in the Implementation of NASA’s Earth Venture Class
The NASA Science Mission Directorate/Earth Science Division’s (SMD/ESD’s) Earth Venture (EV) is a program element within the Earth System Science Pathfinder Program. At the request of NASA, this repo …
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Committee on the Foundation for Assessing the Health and Vitality of the NASA Science Mission Directorate’s Research Communities & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Foundations of a Healthy and Vital Research Community for NASA Science
The U.S. space science community includes thousands of scientists across multiple disciplines that influence and are influenced by the many engineers, technicians, and support personnel that are part …
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Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Space Studies Board: Planning the Future Space Weather Operations and Research Infrastructure
Affecting technological systems at a global-scale, space weather can disrupt high-frequency radio signals, satellite-based communications, navigational satellite positioning and timing signals, space …
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Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics: Roman Space Telescope Observing Time Allocation Principles
The Roman Space Telescope will measurably advance knowledge of dark energy and exoplanet demographics. Locally, it will likely enhance understanding of the structure and substructure of the Milky Way …
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Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Planetary Protection: Planetary Protection Considerations for Missions to Solar System Small Bodies
The ultimate goal of planetary protection for outbound missions is to prevent harmful contamination that would inhibit future measurements designed to search for evidence of the existence or evolutio …
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Committee on Earth Science and Applications from Space & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of Commercial Space Platforms for Earth Science Instruments
Space-based Earth observations enable global observations of the land surface, biosphere, solid Earth, atmosphere, cryosphere, and oceans. Earth observations from space, combined with data acquired f …
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Committee on the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Origins, Worlds, and Life
The next decade of planetary science and astrobiology holds tremendous promise. New research will expand our understanding of our solar system’s origins, how planets form and evolve, under what condi …
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Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee for a Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics 2020 (Astro2020): Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 2020s
We live in a time of extraordinary discovery and progress in astronomy and astrophysics. The next decade will transform our understanding of the universe and humanity’s place in it. Every decade the …
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Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on Biological and Physical Sciences Research in Space 2023–2032: Thriving in Space
Research in biological and physical sciences in space provides the critical scientific and technological foundations that make space exploration possible. As humanity looks towards the Moon and Mars …
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Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Planetary Protection: Report Series: Committee on Planetary Protection
Since the 1980s, national and international planetary protection policies have sought to avoid contamination by terrestrial organisms that could compromise future investigations regarding the origin …
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Commitee on the Review of Progress Toward Implementing the Decadal Survey—Thriving on Our Changing Planet: A Decadal Strategy for Earth Observation from Space & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Thriving on Our Changing Planet
In 2018, the National Academies released Thriving on Our Changing Planet: A Decadal Strategy for Earth Observation from Space. The decadal survey identified key science questions and prioritized obse …
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