NASA's Strategic Direction and the Need for a National Consensus

NASA's Strategic Direction and the Need for a National Consensus
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Publisher : National Academies Press
Total Pages : 81
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ISBN-10 : 9780309313551
ISBN-13 : 0309313554
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Book Synopsis NASA's Strategic Direction and the Need for a National Consensus by : Committee on NASA's Strategic Direction

Download or read book NASA's Strategic Direction and the Need for a National Consensus written by Committee on NASA's Strategic Direction and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2013-01-16 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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? In late 2011, the United States Congress directed the NASA Office of Inspector General to commission a "comprehensive independent assessment of NASA's strategic direction and agency management." Subsequently, NASA requested that the National Research Council (NRC) conduct this independent assessment. In the spring of 2012, the NRC Committee on NASA's Strategic Direction was formed and began work on its task. The committee determined that, only with a national consensus on the agency's future strategic direction—along the lines described in the full NRC report—can NASA continue to deliver the wonder, the knowledge, the national security and economic benefits, and the technology that have been typified by its earlier history. NASA's Strategic Direction and the Need for a National Consensus summarizes the findings and recommendations of the committee.


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