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An Assessment
In 2006, the NRC published a Decadal Survey of Civil Aeronautics: Foundation for the Future, which set out six strategic objectives for the next decad...
An Assessment of NASA's Aeronautics Technology Programs
The National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academies was asked by NASA and the Office of Management and Budget to perform an assessment of NA...
The International Space Station (ISS) is truly an international undertaking. The project is being led by the United States, with the participation of ...
An Assessment of NASA's Pioneering Revolutionary Technology Program
The Committee for the Review of NASA's Pioneering Revolutionary Technology (PRT) Program and its three supporting panels were charged by the National ...
Interim Report
In January 2006, the President announced a new civilian space policy focusing on exploration. As part of its preparations to implement that policy, NA...
Breakthrough Technologies to Meet Future Air and Space Transportation Needs and Goals
After the completion of the National Research Council (NRC) report, Maintaining U.S. Leadership in Aeronautics: Scenario-Based Strategic Planning for ...
Advanced Engineering Environments: Phase 2
America is changing. Many of the most noticeable changes in day-to-day life are associated with the advancing capabilities of computer systems, the gr...
Challenges and Research for an Evolving Aviation System
Decades of continuous efforts to address known hazards in the national airspace system (NAS) and to respond to issues illuminated by analysis of incid...
Aligning the Civil Space Program with National Needs
As civil space policies and programs have evolved, the geopolitical environment has changed dramatically. Although the U.S. space program was original...
In the five decades since NASA was created, the agency has sustained its legacy from the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NACA) in playing ...
As part of the Vision for Space Exploration (VSE), NASA is planning for humans to revisit the Moon and someday go to Mars. An important consideration ...
Life and Physical Sciences Research for a New Era
More than four decades have passed since a human first set foot on the Moon. Great strides have been made in our understanding of what is required to ...
Historically, the United States has been a world leader in aerospace endeavors in both the government and commercial sectors. A key factor in aerospac...
In 2003, NASA began an R&D effort to develop nuclear power and propulsion systems for solar system exploration. This activity, renamed Project Prometh...
A Review of NASA's Bioastronautics Roadmap
Extending the spatial and temporal boundaries of human space flight is an important goal for the nation and for the National Aeronautics and Space Adm...
Final Report
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has operated continuously since 1990. During that time, four space shuttle-based service missions were launched, thre...
An Assessment of NASA's Meteoroid and Orbital Debris Programs
Derelict satellites, equipment and other debris orbiting Earth (aka space junk) have been accumulating for many decades and could damage or even possi...
The Next 50 Years
From September 2007 to June 2008 the Space Studies Board conducted an international public seminar series, with each monthly talk highlighting a diffe...
An Assessment of NASA's Space Solar Power Investment Strategy
In March 2000, NASA's Office of Space Flight asked the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board of the National Research Council to perform an independ...
A Review of NASA's Exploration Technology Development Program
In January 2004, President George W. Bush announced the Vision for Space Exploration (VSE), which instructed NASA to "Extend human presence across the...
For the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to achieve many of its space science and exploration goals over the next several decades,...
Reducing Global Carbon Emissions
The primary human activities that release carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere are the combustion of fossil fuels (coal, natural gas, and oil) to ...
Proceedings of a Workshop
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Summary of a Workshop
The U.S. aviation industry, airline passengers, aircraft pilots, airports, and airline companies are all facing challenges. The air transportation sys...
A Shared National Asset
The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a satellite-based navigation system that was originally designed for the U.S. military. However, the number of ...
Science Opportunities Provided by NASA's Constellation System
In January 2004 NASA was given a new policy direction known as the Vision for Space Exploration. That plan, now renamed the United States Space Explor...
On November 29-30, 2018, in Washington, D.C., the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held the Workshop on the Continuous Improv...
A Review of the NASA Institute of Advanced Concepts
The NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) was formed in 1998 to provide an independent source of advanced aeronautical and space concepts that c...
The National Research Council of the National Academies was requested by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to perform an indepe...
The Way Ahead
High-speed flight is a major technological challenge for both commercial and business aviation. As a first step in revitalizing efforts by the Nationa...
Reducing Environmental Impacts of Aviation
Each new generation of commercial aircraft produces less noise and fewer emissions per passenger-kilometer (or ton-kilometer of cargo) than the previo...
A System in Peril
As recently as the summer of 2001, many travelers were dreading air transportation because of extensive delays associated with undercapacity of the sy...
Assessing Air Force Space Command's Astrodynamics Standards
In February 2009, the commercial communications satellite Iridium 33 collided with the Russian military communications satellite Cosmos 2251. The coll...
A Review of the FAA's Certification Research Plan
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is currently undertaking a broad program known as Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) to dev...
A Science for a Technological Society
From the interior of the Sun, to the upper atmosphere and near-space environment of Earth, and outward to a region far beyond Pluto where the Sun's in...
A Workshop Report
NASA's Human Exploration and Development of Space (HEDS) program within the Office of Space Flight has proposed a new framework for space technology a...
An Imperative for Maintaining U.S. Leadership in Space Exploration
Spacecraft require electrical energy. This energy must be available in the outer reaches of the solar system where sunlight is very faint. It must be ...
Enabling Science for Military Systems
U.S. Air Force (USAF) planners have envisioned that uninhabited air vehicles (UAVs), working in concert with inhabited vehicles, will become an integr...
The Role and Training of NASA Astronauts in the Post-Space Shuttle Era
As the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) retires the Space Shuttle and shifts involvement in International Space Station (ISS) oper...
Near-Earth-Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies
The United States spends approximately $4 million each year searching for near-Earth objects (NEOs). The objective is to detect those that may collide...