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Author National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on NASA's Strategic Direction

Title NASA's strategic direction and the need for a national consensus / Commitee on NASA's Strategic Direction ; Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences ; National Research Council of the National Academies
Published Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 67 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Contents ""Frontmatter""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgment of Reviewers""; ""Contents""; ""Summary""; ""1 NASA�s Past and Current Trajectory""; ""2 Findings, Conclusions, and Recommendations""; ""Appendixes""; ""Appendix A Statement of Task""; ""Appendix B Committee Meetings and Site Visits""; ""Appendix C Select Key Reports Concerning NASA�s Strategic Direction""; ""Appendix D Committee and Staff Biographical Information""
Summary 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? After a "comprehensive independent assessment of NASA's strategic direction and agency management", the NRC Committee determined that, only with a national consensus on the agency's future strategic direction 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. This report summarizes the findings and recommendations of the Committee
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (NAP, viewed October 3, 2013)
Subject United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Planning
SUBJECT United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration fast
Subject Aeronautics -- United States -- Planning
Astrophysics -- Research -- United States -- Planning
Strategic planning.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Engineering (General)
Aeronautics -- Planning
Planning
Strategic planning
NASA programs.
United States
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2013444677
ISBN 9780309313551
0309313554