The NASA Office of Advanced Research and Technology - An Overview
- Paper number
IAC-06-E4.2.02
- Author
Mr. John C. Mankins, ARTEMIS Innovation Management Solutions, LLC, United States
- Year
2006
- Abstract
From the beginnings of NASA until the past year, there has always been one organization within NASA with leadership responsibility for advancing technology for future government and private mission applications. For most of NASA's history, the responsible organization was the Office of Advanced Research and Technology (OART) - later renamed as the Office of Aeronautics and Space Technology (OAST). However, there has never been a history written of this remarkable organization. This paper will provide an initial overview of the history of advanced space technology research and development and NASA, with particular emphasis on OART and it's successor, OAST. The paper will examine key programmatic challenges over the years--beginning in the early 1960s--and trace the responses of the OART organization, and of NASA to those challenges. The paper will also examine the strategic context for the program, including national policies, NASA agency-level planning, and the findings and recommendations of various external advisory groups, including the national academy and the NASA advisory committees.
- Abstract document
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