Jan 11 1991
From The Space Library
NASA Administrator Richard H. Truly announced additional actions to implement the recommendations of the Advisory Committee on the Future of the U.S. Space Program. Truly briefed the National Space Council on January 11 on the status of NASA's review. NASA decided as follows: Space science would remain NASA’s priority and NASA would implement the existing strategic plan, as recommended by the advisory committee. In response to the committee's recommendation, NASA planned to form a special task force with the Department of Defense to assess development over the next two months of an evolutionary heavy-lift launch vehicle. Space Station Freedom restructuring activities, centering on life sciences on microgravity research and applications, conducted in concert with international partners, would be extended to incorporate the committee's recommendations. NASA would move with the Office of Personnel Management to structure a personnel management system that recognizes NASA's special needs to attract and retain top-flight scientists, engineers, and other specialists.
NASA had initiated a number of studies related to the report. In addition, it was to consider the committee's recommendations to conduct Mission to Planet Earth as "a constantly evolving program"; reestablish research and development to support operational government environmental satellites; develop an agency-wide space technology plan to enable future NASA missions and spur commercial space activities; and make certain organizational changes at NASA, e.g., the creation of an Office of Exploration and an Office of Human Resources. (NASA Release 91-5; AP, Jan 11/91; Space News, Jan 21-Feb 3/91)
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