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Space Operations: Archiving Space Science Data Needs Further Management Improvements

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Dec. 9, 1993
Report No. NSIAD-94-25
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Summary:

In two 1990 reports (GAO/IMTEC-90-1 and GAO/IMTEC-91-3), GAO criticized the conditions of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) data archives, pointing out that the archives were incomplete for many important missions and held no data for others. GAO recommended that NASA improve the physical condition of its archives, obtain and restore all appropriate data from past missions, and revise its data management policies to ensure that all valuable data are adequately achieved in the future. Since then, NASA has improved its data-archiving policies and practices, but further improvements are needed to correct some significant long-standing problems, such as continuing storage of data at "temporary locations" that do not meet archive standards and the lack of periodic inspections of data archives to ensure that data quality is protected.

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