LAST DAY! Let NASA know your opinion on their Strategic Direction. Tell them: "Mine the Sky, Defend the Earth, Settle the Universe"

Today in the LAST DAY to provide inputs to the National Academies

PLEASE fill out public opinion for NASA Strategic Direction:

http://sites.nationalacademies.org/DEPS/PublicInputForm/index.htm

 

In the FY2012 appropriations bill that funds NASA, Congress requested an independent study of NASA's strategic direction. The study is being conducted by a committee of the National Research Council.

The study statement of task directs the committee to "recommend how NASA could establish and effectively communicate a common, unifying vision for NASA's strategic direction that encompasses NASA's varied missions."

 

Recommend you cite:

- "Mine the Sky, Defend the Earth, Settle the Universe"

- Goals from the NSS Philophy and Roadmap:

  http://www.nss.org/about/philosophy.html

  http://www.nss.org/settlement/roadmap/

- Agenda of the SFF:

  http://archive.spacefrontier.org/Policies/frontieragenda.html and their tests:

'a "frontier enabling" technology or policy is one which has as its effect the acceleration of the creation of low cost access to the space frontier for private citizens and companies,enables or accelerates our use of space resources,and/or accelerates the rate at which wealth can be generated in space.  In other words,is the project or policy going to provide a return on the national investment, if we define "return" to be the economically sustainablehuman habitation of space?"