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NASA to explore use of Nuclear Power
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would find it of interest.
-- John
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Subject: FYI #45 - O'Keefe Vision Statement
FYI
The American Institute of Physics Bulletin of Science Policy News
Number 45: April 16, 2002
O'Keefe Presents His Vision for NASA
Several months into his tenure as NASA Administrator, Sean
O'Keefe laid out his vision for the space agency in an April 12
speech. O'Keefe spoke at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of
Citizenship and Public Affairs, where he earned his Master's
degree in public administration and later taught. . . .
. . .
The full speech, which runs about 17 pages, is available at
http://www.nasa.gov/bios/vision.html. While this speech does not
go into detail about how he plans to address the space station's
cost difficulties, O'Keefe has previously testified on this
subject before Congress (see FYI #28).
. . .
"As I've been telling you today, NASA has to do things
differently in the future. One fundamental difference is a need
to find new ways to explore the galaxy. Conventional rockets and
fuel simply aren't practical as we reach further out into the
cosmos. That's why we are launching an initiative to explore the
use of nuclear propulsion.... The technology is there. We just
need to take it to the next step to increase speed and on-orbit
time, thereby beginning to overcome this persistent technical
limitation. If we're going to pioneer the future as only NASA
can, we're going to need new ways to get us there."
. . .
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