I think aggressively touching the Moon is an understatement. |
I think aggressively touching the moon is an understatement. What this mission buys is an early attempt to know what some of the resources we're going to have ... we know for sure that for human exploration to succeed we're going to have to essentially live off the land. |
If we can determine there's water somewhere, that's a big deal. That has huge impacts on what we do for our architecture for exploration in the future. |
In my mind, I kind of relate back to here on Earth?going to Antarctica. |
Offering these prizes allows us to engage a lot of people we may not otherwise reach to solve technical problems that will help enable us to achieve the Vision for Space Exploration. |
Sounds like a great day to come on home, |
The Apollo program was very goal-driven. Get people to the moon. Get them back safely. Mission done. The big difference with the (new) exploration vision is that the moon is not the goal. The moon is a steppingstone. |
The first step to Mars and beyond is getting back to the Moon. |
The goal is four people at up to 7 days a shot. |
The guess is it's going to be tied up in some mud or dirt or something. So you're going to have to have some process [to extract it]. If you could just distill the water out, of course, you could drink it. But it's all an integrated problem. |
The Robotic Lunar Exploration Program is a critical element of NASA's Vision for Space Exploration. Data collected will help determine where we go, and what we find during our first human missions to the lunar surface. |
Thinking about the politics…the timing…we need to fly this thing soon. If we want to fly something before this Presidential term is out, we have about two years to build this. Actually, we're starting to get schedule crunched. |
This is going to be an example of how we're going to do a lot of missions in future years at NASA. |
This signifies a new era in space transportation with a greater role for commercial space providers. We look forward to being able to purchase services for routine access to space, as NASA explores the moon, Mars, and beyond. |
We are thinking about going to Mars. Everyone that's working on this is thinking about going to Mars. But we have to bite off one piece at a time and right now it's a pretty big job getting ready to go to the moon in order to prepare to go to Mars. |