NRC Report on NASA Space Policy Now Online
NASA’s Strategic Direction and the Need for a National Consensus, NRC
“The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is widely admired for astonishing accomplishments since its formation in 1958. Looking ahead over a comparable period of time, what can the nation and the world expect of NASA? What will be the agency’s goals and objectives, and what will be the strategy for achieving them? More fundamentally, how will the goals, objectives, and strategy be established and by whom? How will they be modified to reflect changes in science, technology, national priorities, and available resources?”
– NRC Report on NASA’s Goals and Objectives, earlier post
– Space Policy: Going Everywhere – and Nowhere?, earlier post
– NASA’s Somewhat Confused Destination(s), earlier post
4th page lists options going forward…
1. RIF’s and infrastructure retirement
2. Cost share and partner with other gov’t agencies
3. Increase NASA’s budget
4. Drastically reduce or eliminate completely one of the following: human exploration, earth & space science, aeronautics, space technology