Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Mar 1983
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1983aans.symp...25h&link_type=abstract
American Astronautical Society, Goddard Memorial Symposium, 21st, Greenbelt, MD, Mar. 24, 25, 1983. 28 p.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Nasa Programs, Space Stations, Technology Assessment, Climate Change, Communication Satellites, Earth Observations (From Space), Exobiology, Planetology, Spaceborne Astronomy
Scientific paper
Space program goals that NASA can best achieve by the construction of a space station in keeping with the 1958 directive to maintain U.S. pre-eminence in space technology are discussed. Science goals that can be satisfied by a suitable equipped space station include a deeper understanding of the earth/sun system and the earth as a planet, the acquisition of new data on the evolution of the solar system, of life, and of the universe, and the extended study of the laws governing the state of matter and energy. Application goals that can be pursued with a space station include assaying all renewable and nonrenewable earth resources, predicting environment, weather, and climatic changes, studying ocean dynamics, using space to develop new processes and materials, and using space for information transmission on a global basis. The space station can serve as a waypoint for voyages by manned or unmanned spacecraft, as a laboratory, observation platform, and technology proving station, and as a base for deployment and repair of other spacecraft.
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