Tue, Jun 29, 2010
Agreed "Steps Should Be Taken" To Coordinate Long-Term
Goals
NASA senior managers met with their counterparts representing
other space agencies at the National Harbor, MD, on June 23, to
discuss globally-coordinated human and robotic space exploration.
The meeting participants agreed that significant progress has been
made since the joint release of The Global Exploration Strategy
(GES) in May 2007. They agreed steps should be taken to coordinate
a long-term space exploration vision that is sustainable and
affordable.
The meeting included representatives from the Italian Space
Agency, the French Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales, China
National Space Administration, Canadian Space Agency, German
Aerospace Center, European Space Agency, Japan Aerospace
Exploration Agency, Korea Aerospace Research Institute, NASA,
National Space Agency of Ukraine, Russian Federal Space Agency and
the U.K. Space Agency.
The agencies' senior managers welcomed the development of the
International Space Exploration Coordination Group's (ISECG) first
reference architecture, which is focused on human lunar
exploration. They agreed to expand their work to all key
exploration destinations and the critical building blocks required
to reach those destinations. This “global exploration
roadmap” is a key part of an evolving international
architecture effort. Senior managers discussed the importance of an
early dialogue focused on near-term opportunities for cooperation,
such as robotic precursor missions and using the International
Space Station as an exploration test bed. There was agreement to
hold further strategic discussions at the senior management level
to review the progress of ISECG.
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