Scott Jay "Doc" Horowitz (born March 24, 1957) is a retired American astronaut and a veteran of four Space Shuttle missions. (wikipedia)
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.
The first step to Mars and beyond is getting back to the Moon.
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.
I think aggressively touching the Moon is an understatement.
Thinking about the politicsthe timingwe 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.
We were really happy to take part in delivering Expedition Three to orbit and they're having a great mission right now up there on the space station.
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.
We know that there's hydrogen there?but there is a huge debate as to what that hydrogen is locked up with. If there is water there, that's a big deal?a huge impact on how we do exploration.
Sounds like a great day to come on home,
We know for sure that for human exploration to succeed, we're going to have to learn to live off the land.