National Aeronautics and Space Administration February 7, 2014 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration announces that the agency will conduct a public workshop to involve the broader community in work related to the second iteration of the Global Exploration Roadmap, released in August 2013. The updated roadmap identifies candidate early exploration missions, including the Asteroid Redirect Mission, extended duration missions in the lunar vicinity and lunar surface missions that demonstrate the capabilities and techniques for human exploration of deep space and Mars. NASA will share the status of work related to the mission themes in the roadmap and encourage workshop participants to share their innovative ideas for meeting the challenges ahead.

This direct final rule makes nonsubstantive changes by removing a regulation that is obsolete and no longer used. The revision to this rule are part of NASA's retrospective plan under Executive Order (EO) 13563 completed in August 2011.