Aeronautics and Space Report of the President : Fiscal Year 2001 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 2001 Activities: by National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Author:	National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Language:	English
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Excerpt
Excerpt: In Fiscal Year 2001, NASA?s safety quest continued to build momentum. In the past year, NASA continued its successful plan for reducing injuries to a rate of 0.75 occurrences per 100 workers, well below the goal specified by the President?s direction arising from the Federal Worker 2000 Presidential Initiative. To continue this positive trend, NASA?s Centers are working to be certified under the Occupational Safety and Health Administration?s Voluntary Protection Program (VPP). NASA has set a goal for all of its Centers to be VPP certified. By the end of Fiscal Year 2001, 2 of the 10 Centers had been certified. NASA safety and mission assurance experts provided assessment, oversight, and critical evaluation for NASA Space Shuttle missions, International Space Station missions and operations, and NASA spacecraft missions. In addition, NASA conducted several focused assessments including operational and engineering reviews of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory micro devices laboratory and Unitary Wind Tunnel at the Ames Research Center; a critical facilities maintenance assessment to determine the safety and mission support posture of critical facilities across NASA; an assessment of X-37 safety and...

Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS c National Aeronautics and Space Administration . . . . . . . . 1 Department of Defense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Federal Aviation Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Department of Commerce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Department of the Interior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Federal Communications Commission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Department of Agriculture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 National Science Foundation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Department of State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Department of Energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Smithsonian Institution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Appendices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 A-1 U.S. Government Spacecraft Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 A-2 World Record of Space Launches Successful in Attaining Earth Orbit or Beyond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 B Successful Launches to Orbit on U.S. Launch Vehicles, October 1, 2000?September 30, 2001 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 C U.S. and Russian Human Space Flights, 1961?September 30, 2001 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 D U.S. Space Launch Vehicles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 E-1A Space Activities of the U.S. Government?Historical Budget Summary? Budget Authority (in millions of real-year dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 E-1B Space Activities of the U.S. Government?Budget Authority in Millions of Equivalent FY 2001 Dollars (adjusted for inflation) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 E-2 Federal Space Activities Budget . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 E-3 Federal Aeronautics Budget . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 Glossary and Acronyms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147