Sentences with phrase «civil space program»

The House Science, Space, and Technology Committee hearing at 10:00 am ET this morning is expected to provide another opportunity to address the future of the U.S. civil space program, both human and robotic.

, Independent Aerospace Consultant and former Chairman of the Committee on «Rationale and Goals of the U.S. Civil Space Program» established by the National Academies

America's Future in Space: Aligning the Civil Space Program with National Needs appears just 24 hours before the confirmation hearing of Charles Bolden, the former astronaut that Barack Obama has nominated to lead NASA.

The Obama Administration should use the U.S. civil space program to help meet a broader array of national goals, says a report released today by the National Academies» National Research Council.

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The consensus appears to be that these higher levels of performance have less to do with policy than with everything else: the «ecosystem» of reform in a given place (usually a city) and its network of «human - capital providers,» expert charter - management organizations, leadership - development programs, school - incubator efforts, local funders and civic leaders, etc. — in other words, what conservatives like to call «civil society»: the space between the government and the individual (in this case, between government and individual schools).

The role of the government in terms of the history of public education, civil rights, our space program, World War II, and our national parks system

Her artworks are inspired by a range of subject matter from the civil rights movement to the United States Space program to the daily experience of her Washington D.C. garden.

Thomas's artworks are inspired by a variety of subject matter from the civil rights movement to the United States space program (NASA) to the daily experience of her Washington, DC garden.

Thomas Homer - Dixon Trudeau Center for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Toronto Feng Hsu Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Mark Jacobson Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University David Keith Institute for Sustainable Energy, Environment and Economy, University of Calgary Geoffrey Landis Glenn Research Center, NASA Jane C. S. Long hydrogeologist and geotechnical engineer Michael MacCracken Climate Institute, Washington, DC John C. Mankins Sunsat Energy Council / Managed Energy Technologies Michael E. Mann Earth System Science Center, Pennsylvania State University Gregg Marland International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis Mark Nelson Institute of Ecotechnics, Santa Fe, NM Darel Preble Space Solar Power Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology Gregory H. Rau Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz Steve Rayner Said Business School, Oxford, UK Kim Stanley Robinson Author, «Forty Signs of Rain» Gregory Dennis Sachs Alternative Power Program, US Merchant Marine Academy Thomas Schelling (Nobel laureate) Department of Economics, University of Maryland Michael Schlesinger Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign Steven E. Schwartz Brookhaven National Laboratory, Department of Energy John Turner National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Department of Energy Tyler Volk Department of Biology, New York University Tom M. L. Wigley National Center for Atmospheric Research Steven C. Wofsy School of Engineering and Applied Science / Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Harvard University Lowell Wood Hoover Institution / Stanford University

Thriving on Our Changing Planet presents prioritized science, applications, and observations, along with related strategic and programmatic guidance, to support the U.S. civil space Earth observation program over the coming decade.