Aeronautics and Space Report of the President : Fiscal Year 2002 Activities: by National Aeronautics and Space Administration

By National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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Title:	Aeronautics and Space Report of the President : Fiscal Year 2002 Activities: by National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Author:	National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Excerpt
Excerpt: Fiscal Year (FY) 2002 brought advances on many fronts in support of NASA?s new vision, announced by Administrator Sean O?Keefe on April 12, ?to improve life here, to extend life to there, to find life beyond.? NASA successfully carried out four Space Shuttle missions, including three to the International Space Station (ISS) and one servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). By the end of the fiscal year, humans had occupied the ISS continuously for 2 years. NASA also managed five expendable launch vehicle (ELV) missions and participated in eight international cooperative ELV launches...

Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS c National Aeronautics and Space Administration . . . . . . . . 1 Department of Defense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Federal Aviation Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Department of Commerce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Department of the Interior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Federal Communications Commission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Department of Agriculture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 National Science Foundation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Department of State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Department of Energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Smithsonian Institution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Appendices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 A-1 U.S. Government Spacecraft Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 A-2 World Record of Space Launches Successful in Attaining Earth Orbit or Beyond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 B Successful Launches to Orbit on U.S. Launch Vehicles October 1, 2001?September 30, 2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 C U.S. and Russian Human Space Flights 1961?June 30, 2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 D U.S. Space Launch Vehicles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 E-1A Space Activities of the U.S. Government?Historical Budget Summary . . . . . . 140 E-1B Space Activities of the U.S. Government?Budget Authority in Millions of Equivalent FY 2002 Dollars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 E-2 Federal Space Activities Budget . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 E-3 Federal Aeronautics Budget . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 Glossary and Acronyms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145