The New NASA A Renewed Spirit of Discovery

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TheNewNASAA Renewed Spirit of Discovery

• February 23, 2004

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NASAs New Vision and Objectives(as of January
14, 2004)

• VISION
• The fundamental goal of this vision is to advance
  U.S. scientific, security, and economic interests
  through a robust space exploration program. In
  support of this goal, the United States will
• GOALS
• Implement a sustained and affordable human and
  robotic program to explore the solar system and
  beyond
• Extend human presence across the solar system,
  starting with a human return to the Moon by the
  year 2020, in preparation for human exploration
  of Mars and other destinations
• Develop the innovative technologies, knowledge,
  and infrastructures both to explore and to
  support decisions about the destinations for
  human exploration and
• Promote international and commercial
  participation in exploration to further U.S.
  scientific, security, and economic interests.

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Key Implementation Points

• Retire the Space Shuttle as soon as assembly of
  the International Space Station is completed
• Undertake lunar exploration activities to enable
  sustained human and robotic exploration of Mars
  and more distant destinations in the solar system
• Develop and demonstrate key capabilities required
  to support more distant, more capable, and/or
  longer duration human and robotic exploration of
  Mars and other destinations
• Project Constellation to develop a new Crew
  Exploration Vehicle (CEV)
• Modular system where components could be mixed
  and matched to return crews from the ISS, as well
  as transport people on lunar and deep-space
  voyages.
• Commission on the Implementation of U.S. Space
  Exploration Policy

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Note DOD requested 20.4 billion for space
programs for FY2004, compared with its FY2003
appropriation of 18.4 billion.
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Significant Organization Changes

• Comprehensive restructuring of the offices within
  Headquarters
• Office of Exploration Systems (Code T)
• Identification, development, validation, and
  transfer of innovative, high-payoff exploration
  and related technologies and implementing them in
  exploration projects.
• Office of Aeronautics
• Office of Chief Engineer
• Office of Health and Medical Systems
• Office of the Chief Information Officer
• Office of Institutional and Corporate Management
• Management of many other exploration and
  development-oriented responsibilities, which once
  resided at NASA centers will be run out of
  headquarters
• Lots of different university relationships

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NASA Senior Management DoD Connections( a few
examples)

• Sean OKeefe, - Administrator, Secretary of the
  Navy
• Frederick Gregory - Deputy Administrator, Air
  Force (Colonel), Astronaut, Air Force Academy
• Navy Rear Admiral Craig Steidle - Associate
  Administrator for Office of Exploration, Navy
• Pete Aldridge - Commission on the Exploration of
  U.S. Space Policy, former Secretary of the Air
  Force.
• Code B (Chief Financial Officer) - major change
  out of existing personnel to DoD and OMB
  personnel
• John Schumacher - Chief of Staff, Navy, Naval
  Reserves (Captain), Naval Academy
• Theron Bradley - Chief Engineer, Naval Nuclear
  Propulsion Program
• Richard Williams - Chief Health and Medical
  Officer, Air Force (Commander)
• William Readdy - Associate Administrator for
  Space Flight, Navy (Test Pilot) Naval Academy
• Bryan OConner - Associate Administrator for
  Safety and Mission Assurance, Navy, Marine Corp
• Robert Cabana - JSC Deputy Director, USMC, Ret.
  (Colonel)
• Kenneth Bowersox - Director of Flight Crew
  Operations, USN (Captain)

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NASA in Evolution/Revolution

• QUESTION The large-scale systems integration
  that you envision to accomplish the new missions
  emphasizing discovery and exploration, is it fair
  to infer -- or at any rate, to speculate -- that
  this will mean some changes in mission for all
  the centers -- Marshall, Houston, JPL, whatever
  -- and that this will involve changes in staffing
  and budget allocation and so forth? In short,
  everything's up for grabs, isn't it?
• O'KEEFE Is it going to be different? Yes. No
  doubt about it.

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Implications to NASAs Focus

• Science driven missions
• Exploration driven missions

Black Hole Imager Mission
Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter Mission
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Moving Forward

• To ensure that NASA maintains a sense of focus
  and direction toward accomplishing this new
  mission, the President has directed NASA
  Administrator Sean O'Keefe to review all current
  space flight and exploration and direct them
  toward the President's goals.
• Commission on the Implementation of U.S. Space
  Exploration Policy to advise NASA on the
  long-term implementation of the President's
  vision. (Report within four months of its first
  meeting)
• In addition to tapping creative thinking within
  the NASA organization, NASA will leverage the
  ideas and expertise resident in the Nation's
  universities and industry.

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Implementation(Space Exploration Beyond Low
Earth Orbit)

• The Moon
• Undertake lunar exploration activities to enable
  sustained human and robotic exploration of Mars
  and more distant destinations in the solar
  system
• Starting no later than 2008, initiate a series of
  robotic missions to the Moon to prepare for and
  support future human exploration activities
• Conduct the first extended human expedition to
  the lunar surface as early as 2015, but no later
  than the year 2020 and
• Use lunar exploration activities to further
  science, and to develop and test new approaches,
  technologies, and systems, including use of lunar
  and other space resources, to support sustained
  human space exploration to Mars and other
  destinations.
• Mars and Other Destinations
• Conduct robotic exploration of Mars to search for
  evidence of life, to understand the history of
  the solar system, and to prepare for future human
  exploration
• Conduct robotic exploration across the solar
  system for scientific purposes and to support
  human exploration. In particular, explore
  Jupiter's moons, asteroids and other bodies to
  search for evidence of life, to understand the
  history of the solar system, and to search for
  resources
• Conduct advanced telescope searches for
  Earth-like planets and habitable environments
  around other stars
• Develop and demonstrate power generation,
  propulsion, life support, and other key
  capabilities required to support more distant,
  more capable, and/or longer duration human and
  robotic exploration of Mars and other
  destinations and
• Conduct human expeditions to Mars after acquiring
  adequate knowledge about the planet using robotic
  missions and after successfully demonstrating
  sustained human exploration missions to the Moon.

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Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV)

• Develop a new crew exploration vehicle (CEV) to
  provide crew transportation for missions beyond
  low Earth orbit
• The form and function of the OSP was morphed into
  plans for the CEV.
• The CEV is to be designed as a modular system
  where components could be mixed and matched to
  return crews from the ISS, as well as transport
  people on lunar and deep-space voyages. The plan
  is to first develop the vehicle to resupply and
  bring crews from the station, then to build ships
  that could fly a moon landing as early as 2015.
  NASA's funding plan begins as the shuttle fleet
  is retired and builds toward human explorations
  of the solar system. This new craft would almost
  certainly be a space capsule design, much like
  the earlier Apollo-style spaceships.
• Missions to ISS would be followed by flights to
  high Earth orbit -- above the Van Allen radiation
  belts -- then to the moon for 14 days. The lunar
  experience would then be expanded, possibly with
  a lunar base until technologies needed to mount
  more ambitious missions were developed.
• NASA's new moon ships also would carry a series
  of modules, propulsion stages and small cargo
  units that could be mixed and matched depending
  on the flight planned. One of the biggest
  drawbacks of the space shuttles has been their
  lack of flexibility. Designed for hauling large
  payloads and modules into space in their
  cavernous bays, they could not be reconfigured to
  bring up just a small amount of equipment. NASA
  has a space trucking fleet which new only one
  type of cargo big.
• The new plan calls for an evolutionary mode of
  development, with each step moving astronauts
  further away from Earth and closer to the moon --
  a fleet of modular capsules and interchangeable
  units. In the trucking fleet analogy, these would
  be NASA's tankers, small pickup trucks, delivery
  vans, SUVs and campers.
• Project Constellation to develop a new Crew
  Exploration Vehicle (CEV)

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Office of Exploration Systems (code T)

• Headquarters Program Office is responsible for
  the Exploration Systems Enterprise
• Executive leadership and programmatic direction
  for pioneering the identification, development,
  validation, and transfer of innovative,
  high-payoff exploration and related technologies
  and implement them in exploration projects.
• Integration and prioritization of exploration
  Research and Developments investments, requiring
  a strong interface with the customers and users
  of the technology and development programs.
• Focus and direction to future exploration
  technologies by applying a strategy to task
  technology analytical processes involving an
  integrated team of users and developers.
• User-identified future operational needs shall
  define comprehensive requirements which will
  determine technologies and demonstrations will be
  pursued and funded.
• Critical link among the requirements community,
  the technology community, and any eventual
  developmental and acquisition programs.
• Collaborate with the following customers Office
  of Space Flight, Office of Biological and
  Physical Research, Office of Space Science,
  Office of Earth Science, Office of Education,
  Space Architect, and Chief Scientist.
• Responsibilities
• Leading the development of an Enterprise
  strategic implementation plan (including
  strategy, goals, and metrics) to guide the
  conduct of the Agency's exploration research and
  development.
• Formulating, planning, and advocating NASA's
  exploration research and developmental programs
  consistent with the Agency's Strategic Plan that
  includes negotiating Commitment Agreements with
  the Administrator, defining required policies and
  guidance, and approving program plans, and
  managing Level 1 requirements of development
  programs.
• Leading the Enterprise budget development and
  approval process, managing corporate resource
  implementation responsibilities, and ensuring
  that program technical and financial performance
  goals are achieved.
• Coordinating exploration research and development
  planning, policies, and programs with other
  Government agencies, industry, and academia, and
  conducting corporate communications and advocacy
  activities with technology partners, the
  educational community, the public, customers, and
  stakeholders.
• Fulfilling the Agency's statutory obligations
  with respect to SBIR, STTR, and related
  technology transfer and partnership activities.