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G.L. Withbroe (NASA Headquarters)
NASA has proposed a new initiative, Living With a Star (LWS), a research and development program involving studying solar variability as it affects human technology, humans in space, and terrestrial climate. The goal of the initiative is to develop a capability to observe, understand, and predict the aspects of the connected Sun-Earth system that affect life and society. The initiative includes the following elements, (a) expanded utilization of the Solar Terrestrial Probe missions, (b) establishing a Space Weather Research Network with solar and geospace missions designed to address scientific research problems relevant to the above goal (c) data analysis/modeling targeted on scientific problems relevant to the goal of the program (d) Orbiting Environmental Testbeds for testing rad-hard and rad-tolerant systems, and (e) partnering with other agencies and industry.