RELEASE DATE: April 16, 2004
NOTICE OF INTENT: May 14, 2004
PROPOSALS DUE: July 16, 2004
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Office of Space Science (OSS) is releasing an Announcement of Opportunity (AO NNH04ZSS002O) entitled Discovery Program Missions and Missions of Opportunity to solicit proposals for investigations through the Discovery Program. Missions and Missions of Opportunity must launch no later than December 31, 2009.
The Discovery missions meet the goals of planetary system(s) exploration encompassing the scientific objectives of the NASA Solar System Exploration (SSE) theme (excluding Mars) and the search for extrasolar planetary systems element of the NASA Astronomical Search for Origins (ASO) theme. The Discovery Program selects missions through a fully open and competitive process. Investigation teams are to be led by a single Principal Investigator (PI), with participation open to all categories of organizations, foreign and domestic, including educational institutions, industry, nonprofit organizations, NASA centers, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and other Federally Funded Research and Development Centers, and other Government agencies. Principal Investigators are responsible for and allowed to assemble the mission team from any and all of these organizations.
A Discovery Preproposal Conference will be scheduled approximately two weeks after the AO is released. Details for this conference and an expanded version of this Announcement will be posted at the Web site http://discovery.larc.nasa.gov/discovery/ .
Questions or comments about the planned solicitation may be addressed to the NASA Discovery Program Scientist: Dr. Susan M. Niebur, Discovery Program Scientist, Solar System Exploration Division, Code SE, Office of Space Science, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, DC 20546-0001; E-mail: susan.m.niebur@nasa.gov; Telephone: (202) 358-0745; Facsimile: (202) 358-3097.
This notice constitutes a Broad Agency Announcement as contemplated in FAR 6.102(d)(2).
Notwithstanding the posting of this opportunity at FedBizOpps.gov, Grants.gov, or at both sites, NASA reserves the right to determine the appropriate award instrument for each proposal selected pursuant to this announcement.
