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International Space Station

The International Space Station (ISS) is a one-of-a-kind, permanently crewed facility orbiting the Earth that provides NASA and its international partners a platform to develop, test, and validate the next generation of technologies and operational processes needed to continue space exploration.

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PERFORMING
Effective

This is the highest rating a program can achieve. Programs rated Effective set ambitious goals, achieve results, are well-managed and improve efficiency.
  • The ISS Program is on track to provide the capabilities and resources necessary to conduct on-orbit research that will directly address the nation's future needs for human space exploration.
  • The ISS demonstrates the utility of working with international partners, and provides a unique platform for other agencies, industry, and academia to conduct research in the ISS National Laboratory.
  • NASA achieved the majority of its performance goals within the ISS program, and it is incorporating relevant findings from independent evaluations. As NASA's mission requirements evolve beyond Shuttle retirement, the program continues to develop new metrics and evaluate its existing measures to ensure that they are ambitious and relevant.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Continuing to identify efficiencies, savings, and synergies that further reduce Space Station operations costs after assembly is complete and the Space Shuttle is retired in 2010
  • Maintaining a plan that assesses the most cost-effective method to sustain necessary program capabilities post-2010 and tracks them during this period of possible reduced transportation to ISS
  • For the time between Shuttle retirement and human lunar operations, identifying and tracking changing exploration requirements for Space Station that may impact program budget or performance

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