NASA

More on roadmaps

[Apologies for the limited posting of late; I’ve been on travel and dealing with a laptop that’s been on the fritz.]

As noted here previously, NASA is accelerating its strategic roadmapping effort with the goal of completing this project by later this month. There are 13 roadmap efforts which, according to a source familiar with the effort, are all supposed to be completed by May 22 (which until Friday had been the shuttle return to flight date.) However, some are behind schedule, notably the shuttle and education roadmaps, neither of which have held meetings yet, and thus will most likely not be done by the 22nd. Several other ones, including aeronautics, ISS, lunar exploration, and nuclear systems, are also somewhat behind schedule and may not be done by the deadline, either. The remaining ones are on schedule for completion by the 22nd, though, and those that deal with scientific topics—Mars exploration, solar system exploration, search for Earth-like planets, astronomy, earth science, and space science—will be given to the National Research Council at that time for an outside review. (The ISS roadmap will also apparently be reviewed by NRC once it’s done.)

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