The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has issued a national strategy outlining the current administration’s vision to maintain U.S. leadership in low Earth orbit through research and development efforts.
The strategy has five policy objectives to enable the country to realize the economic, scientific, educational and diplomatic benefits of LEO research initiatives, the White House said Friday.
The first three objectives are advancing groundbreaking science and technology; strengthening U.S. government collaboration and partnerships; and promoting market opportunities, innovation and sustainability.
To achieve the first objective, the strategy calls for the U.S. government to promote transformational R&D and enable rapid, repeatable space experiments by advancing automation and in-situ sample preparation and complex, high-performing in-situ analysis hardware.
The strategy’s last two objectives are expanding international cooperation and stimulating science, technology, engineering and mathematics education and workforce development.
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