The NASA Decadal Planning Team ( DPT ) and its successor were influential behind - the - scenes efforts to develop a major new direction for the space agency early in the 21st Century .
Its successor is the NASA Exploration Team ( NExT ) .
The NASA Decadal Planning Team ( DPT ) and its successor , the NASA Exploration Team ( NExT ) , were influential behind - the - scenes efforts to develop a major new direction for the space agency early in the 21st Century .