President's Commission on Implementation of United States Space Exploration Policy

Cover page of final report

The President's Commission on Implementation of United States Space Exploration Policy was a Presidential Commission formed by United States President George W. Bush on January 27, 2004, through the Executive Order 13326.^[1] Its final report was submitted on June 4, 2004.

Commissioners

There were nine members of the commission:^[2]

Hearings

There were five public hearings held by the commission to gain a variety of different perspectives. They were as follows:

February 11, 2004 - National Transportation Safety Board, Washington, D.C.
March 3–4, 2004 - United States Air Force Museum, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
March 24–25, 2004 - Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia
April 15–17, 2004 - Galileo Academy of Science and Technology, San Francisco, California
May 3–4, 2004 - Asia Society, New York City

Findings

The committee's findings and recommendations ^[3] were:

Space exploration must be a national priority
NASA's relationship to the private sector must be transformed
Key technologies must be developed
A robust space industry is required
International resources are valuable
A space program can stimulate math, science, and engineering education

References

↑ January 30, 2004 Whitehouse Press Release - Establishment of Commission
↑ January 30, 2004 Whitehouse Press Release - Naming of the commissioners
↑ http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/60736main_M2M_report_small.pdf

External links

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Policy and history

History	NACA (1915) National Aeronautics and Space Act (1958) Space Task Group (1958) Paine (1986) Rogers (1986) Ride (1987) Space Exploration Initiative (1989) Augustine (1990) U.S. National Space Policy (1996) CFUSAI (2002) CAIB (2003) Vision for Space Exploration (2004) Aldridge (2004) Augustine (2009)

General	Space Race Administrator and Deputy Administrator Chief Scientist Astronaut Corps Budget Spin-off technologies NASA TV NASA Social Launch Services Program Kennedy Space Center Vehicle Assembly Building Launch Complex 39 Launch Control Center Johnson Space Center Mission Control Lunar Sample Laboratory

Robotic programs

Past	Hitchhiker Mariner Mariner Mark II MESUR Mars Surveyor '98 New Millennium Lunar Orbiter Pioneer Planetary Observer Ranger Surveyor Viking Project Prometheus Mars Scout

Current	Living With a Star Lunar Precursor Robotic Program Earth Observing System Great Observatories program Explorer Small explorer Voyager Discovery New Frontiers Mars Exploration Rover

Human spaceflight
programs

Past	X-15 (suborbital) Mercury Gemini Apollo Apollo–Soyuz Test Project (with USSR) Skylab Shuttle–Mir (with Russia) Space Shuttle program Constellation program

Current	International Space Station program Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) Orion

Individual featured
missions
(human and robotic)

Past	COBE Apollo 11 Mercury 3 Mercury-Atlas 6 Magellan Pioneer 10/11 Galileo GALEX GRAIL WMAP Space Shuttle LADEE MESSENGER Aquarius

Currently operating	MRO Mars Odyssey Dawn New Horizons Kepler International Space Station Hubble Space Telescope Spitzer RHESSI SWIFT THEMIS Mars Exploration Rover Curiosity rover timeline Opportunity rover observed Cassini GOES 14 Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter GOES 15 Van Allen Probes SDO Juno Mars Science Laboratory timeline NuSTAR Voyager 1/2 WISE MAVEN MMS

Future	NPP James Webb Space Telescope WFIRST InSight OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Retrieval and Utilization Mars 2020 NISAR Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite Europa Multiple-Flyby Mission

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