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Nati unl Aeronautics end Space Administraticn Should provide tl--
C=i:qress witn More inrormation on the Fioner Vexius Ercject.
2SAD-77-65; B-183134. November 7, 1977. 33 pp. + 3 appenoices
(15 pp.).
tizport to the Congress; by Robert F. Neller, Acting Comptrollei
General.
Issue Area: Sci. nce and Tacno1ogy: 1.anagement and oversignt cr
Programs (2004).
Lontact: Procurement and Systems Acquisition Div.
Budqet 'unctioii: Genral Science, Space, and Technclcgy: Space
Science, Ap~iicaticns, and Techbclcgy (254).
Orqanization Con-erned: Nations± Aeronautics and Space
Administra tion.
Congressional Relevance: .Jouse Ccmmittee cn Science and
Technology; Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and
Transportation; Congress.
Pioneer Venus is a space tlight prcject aiyned to
increase inowiedqe of our nearest planetary neighbor and to
obtain information for solvina atmospheric prctlems on earth.
The project involves launching twc s acecrai:t -o Venus in 1976.
Fiiidinqs/Conc±usions: Costs for tke Frcject hale grown aad
technical probleis have cropped up iz the projct. 7he National
Aeronautics and Space Administraticn'I (iASA'S) quality
assurance policy has not seen applie in tti.s Frogr;im. NASA hIas
snowinq congressional attemptea to cooperate wat. the ScViet
Unionr in joint planetary missions, but the Soviets have chosen
to restrict the relationship to one cf coordinating Flanetary
goals aihd txcnanqing the results of complete missicns. Eurcpean
Space Aqency participat*cn in the project %as anticiFated, but
never materialized. Recommendations: 1he Administrator of .AA
shoulu: provide The Congress with an estimate C1 total PiCneer
Venus projecr costs; infcrm congressicnal ccmmittees ol the
amounts ot project reserve funds in ludget requests r new
pri jects and of now such tunds are used; prcviso congressional
committee s witn information semiannually on the status ci
Pioneer Venus funds showing congressicial aiuthcizations,
allotment-s, obliqatlons, and expenditures compared to the ASA
oudget plan; provide congressional committees with irtcrgatiLL
on NASA's ad the prime contractor's current estimates ot the
spacecratt's contract cost at completion, causEb cf contract
cost growth, and NASA's estimate ct the saximuf ree the
contractors can earn at compleion; airect tiat zutuie Pioneer
Venus project status reports include Inforaaticn on current
prcLIems; ad review past and zurrent actions takeu under the
Ames quality assurance program for the Pioneer Venus spaceciaft
contract to aisure that the Government's interests are
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