As the school year begins, I thought that I would ask you about the essay assignment that you have given us last May. In our original proposal, we included an Executive Summary and three foldouts in the 20-page section called Science Investigation. Since the Concept Study Report allows 5 pages of Executive Summary and 25 pages of Science Investigation, we were wondering if
a) We could replace our original Executive Summary with the new one?
b) If the answer to (a) is yes, do we need to include the old one for reference?
c) As a result of Phase A study, we will make some changes to our Technical Approach. Some of this material is in half of one of the foldouts. Could we convert that fold out into a single page and include it in the Science Investigation section? This will save us a foldout page that we could use elsewhere.
a) Yes. The Executive Summary should be a summary of the entire Concept Study Report, which is why it has been allocated 5 pages (as given in the Guidelines). The original Executive Summary only summarized the contents of the original proposal.
b) No. What needs to be included is the old science proposal with changes marked (as required in the Guidelines).
c) Yes, as long as you clearly mark the changes (as required in the Guidelines).
Paul Hertz
Explorer Program Scientist
NASA Headquarters Responsible Office: Code SZ
Last Updated: 17 October 2001
Author: Paul Hertz (Code SZ)