Activities and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) programs, both ongoing and planned, are described by NASA administrative personnel from the offices of Space Science and Applications, Space Systems Development, Space Flight, Exploration, and from the Johnson Space Center. NASA's multi-year strategic plan, called Vision 21, is also discussed. It proposes to use the unique perspective of space to better understand Earth. Among the NASA programs mentioned are the Magellan to Venus and Galileo to Jupiter spacecraft, the Cosmic Background Explorer, Pegsat (the first Pegasus payload), Hubble, the Joint U.S./German ROSAT X-ray Mission, Ulysses to Jupiter and over the sun, the Astro-Spacelab Mission, and the Gamma Ray Observatory. Copies of viewgraphs that illustrate some of these missions, and others, are provided. Also discussed were life science research plans, economic factors as they relate to space missions, and the outlook for international cooperation.
NASA Reports
1992
31 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Astronautics , Economic factors , International cooperation , Management planning , NASA space programs , Project management , Aerospace engineering , Aerospace systems , Cosmic background explorer satellite , Galileo project , Gamma ray observatory , Hubble space telescope , Life sciences , Magellan project (Nasa) , Rosat mission , Solar observatories , Ulysses mission
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