Add your ideas to NASA's planning process

From: CenterWide@...
Subject: MESSAGE FROM NASA HQ - Seeking Ideas for Missions,
Capabilities & Technologies
Date: November 8, 2004 3:11:32 PM PST
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MESSAGE FROM NASA HEADQUARTERS
Point of contact: Rob Mueller, Advanced Planning and
Integration Office, 818/393-1336

Request for Information:
Seeking Ideas for Missions, Capabilities and Technologies

NASA is preparing a set of roadmaps that will form the foundation
of the agency's strategic plan. "Strategic Roadmaps" will explore
options and establish pathways to achieve NASA's strategic
objectives. "Capability Roadmaps" will recommend approaches to
provide technical capabilities critical to NASA's future
programs.

The purpose of the NASA Advanced Planning and Integration Office
Request for Information is to solicit contributions to the
roadmap development process with the goal of ensuring that the
best and widest possible set of ideas is considered in the
formulation of NASA's plans for the future. The office will hold
a public workshop to share innovative approaches on Nov. 30
in Washington D.C. The registration and white paper submittal
deadline is Nov. 16. You must register in advance and receive
a confirmation of registration in order to attend the workshop.
(To register, go to:
http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/eps/synopsis.cgi?acqid3190)

NASA employees are invited to contribute and encouraged to share
this announcement with anyone outside the agency who might be
interested in attending.

For more information, contact Rob Mueller in the NASA Advanced
Planning and Integration Office (APIO); 4800 Oak Grove Drive,
Mail Stop 301-422, Pasadena, CA 91109-8099; phone: 818/393-1336;
fax: 818/393-2699; E-mail: mailto:rob.mueller@...

The dinosaurs were destroyed by an asteroid because they weren't
space-faring. It's almost as if Gaia then thought "Well, dinosaurs
worked pretty well, but space-faring is necessary. Maybe I'll should
try mammals this time." Humanity is now developing systems to detect
and deflect asteroids, and could build orbital space colonies to spread
beyond Earth to insure life would survive a planetary catastrophe.

Al Globus
Evolvable Systems Group (http://ic.arc.nasa.gov/projects/esg)
CSC at NASA Ames Research Center
http://www.nas.nasa.gov/~globus/home.html

Views expressed in this email are only my opinions and are not the
position of any organization I'm familiar with.