The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) creates long-term archives of scientific data from its space missions because of the potential importance of the data in future studies such as long-term analyses of the earth's environment. This report responds to the former Chairman's request that we review changes to NASA'S data archiving program since we last reported on the program in 1990. Our reports criticized the conditions of NASA'S data archives and pointed out that the archives were incomplete for many important missions and held no data for others. In summary, it is recommended that NASA improve the physical condition of its archives, obtain and restore all appropriate data from past missions, and revise its data management policies to ensure that all valuable data are adequately archived in the future. Our objectives were to determine if NASA had improved its data archiving policies and practices in response to our recommendations and whether there are other opportunities to improve that program.


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    Titel :

    Space Operations: Archiving Space Science Data Needs Further Management Improvements. Report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight, Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, House of Representatives


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1993


    Format / Umfang :

    25 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch