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- Title: Glide Path to Irrelevance: Federal Funding for Aeronautics; Aeronautics Within NASA Is Too Important to Neglect in Favor of Space. But That Is Just What the Federal Government Is Doing.
- Author : Issues in Science and Technology
- Release Date : January 22, 2006
- Genre: Engineering,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 224 KB
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The nation's 100-year preeminence in aviation is in serious jeopardy. So, too, are the medium- and long-term health and safety of the U.S. air transportation system. The peril stems from a lack of national consensus about the federal government's role in civilian aviation generally and about the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA's) role in aviation technology development in particular. Aeronautics--the first "A" in NASA--is now vastly overshadowed in resources, managerial attention, and political support by the agency's principal mission of space exploration and discovery. Indeed, most people have no idea that NASA is the leading, and essentially the only, agency that is organizationally and technically capable of supporting the nation's leadership in air transportation, air safety, and aircraft manufacturing. The aeronautics community supports an expansive public R & D program, with NASA playing a lead role. But during the past seven or eight years, successive administrations and Congresses have reduced NASA's aeronautics budget without articulating how the program should be scaled back. In these circumstances, NASA has tried to maintain a sprawling program by spreading diminishing resources across existing research establishments and many objectives and projects--too many to ensure their effectiveness and the application of their results.