An Enabling Foundation for NASA's Earth and Space Science Missions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Enabling Foundation for NASA's Earth and Space Science Missions write by National Research Council. This book was released on 2010-02-25. An Enabling Foundation for NASA's Earth and Space Science Missions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 applied to spaceflight missions, but NASA identifies nearly one quarter of the SMD budget as "mission enabling." The principal mission-enabling activities, which traditionally encompass much of NASA's research and analysis (R&A) programs, include support for basic research, theory, modeling, and data analysis; suborbital payloads and flights and complementary ground-based programs; advanced technology development; and advanced mission and instrumentation concept studies. While the R&A program is essential to the development and support of NASA's diverse set of space and Earth science missions, defining and articulating an appropriate scale for mission-enabling activities have posed a challenge throughout NASA's history. This volume identifies the appropriate roles for mission-enabling activities and metrics for assessing their effectiveness. Furthermore, the book evaluates how, from a strategic perspective, decisions should be made about balance between mission-related and mission-enabling elements of the overall program as well as balance between various elements within the mission-enabling component. Collectively, these efforts will help SMD to make a good program even better.
Science Plan
Science Plan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Science Plan write by United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Science Mission Directorate. This book was released on 2007. Science Plan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Science Plan for NASA's Science Mission Directorate emphasizes the identification and prioritization of space missions and articulates the research program in detail, as well as describing the research solicitation, advanced technology, data management, and related activities required to achieve NASA's space and Earth science goals.
Review of the Draft 2014 Science Mission Directorate Science Plan
Review of the Draft 2014 Science Mission Directorate Science Plan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Review of the Draft 2014 Science Mission Directorate Science Plan write by Committee on the Assessment of the NASA Science Mission Directorate 2014 Science Plan. This book was released on 2013-12-16. Review of the Draft 2014 Science Mission Directorate Science Plan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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. SMD's Science Plan serves to provide more detail on its four traditional science disciplines - astronomy and astrophysics, solar and space physics (also called heliophysics), planetary science, and Earth remote sensing and related activities - than is possible in the agency-wide Strategic Plan. Review of the Draft 2014 Science Mission Directorate Science Plan comments on the responsiveness of SMD's Science Plan to the National Research Council's guidance on key science issues and opportunities in recent NRC decadal reports. This study focuses on attention to interdisciplinary aspects and overall scientific balance; identification and exposition of important opportunities for partnerships as well as education and public outreach; and integration of technology development with the science program. The report provides detailed findings and recommendations relating to the draft Science Plan.
Powering Science
Powering Science - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Powering Science write by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. This book was released on 2018-01-29. Powering Science available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 associated with SMD's four divisionsâ€"Astrophysics, Earth Science, Heliophysics, and Planetary Sciences. Because a single mission can consist of multiple spacecraft, NASA-SMD is responsible for nearly 100 operational spacecraft. The most high profile of these are the large strategic missions, often referred to as "flagships." Large strategic missions are essential to maintaining the global leadership of the United States in space exploration and in science because only the United States has the budget, technology, and trained personnel in multiple scientific fields to conduct missions that attract a range of international partners. This report examines the role of large, strategic missions within a balanced program across NASA-SMD space and Earth sciences programs. It considers the role and scientific productivity of such missions in advancing science, technology and the long-term health of the field, and provides guidance that NASA can use to help set the priority of larger missions within a properly balanced program containing a range of mission classes.
Summary of the Science Plan
Summary of the Science Plan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Summary of the Science Plan write by United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Science Mission Directorate. This book was released on 2007. Summary of the Science Plan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This summary of the Science Plan for NASA's Science Mission Directorate emphasizes the identification and prioritization of space missions and articulates the research program in detail, as well as describing the research solicitation, advanced technology, data management, and related activities required to achieve NASA's space and Earth science goals.
