An Enabling Foundation for NASA's Space and Earth Science Missions by Committee on the Role
An Enabling Foundation for NASA's Space and Earth Science Missions by Committee on the Role
English | June 30, 2010 | ISBN: 0309148235 | 77 pages | PDF | 31 MB
English | June 30, 2010 | ISBN: 0309148235 | 77 pages | PDF | 31 MB
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.