On a screen behind the lectern at the briefing, Doug McCuistion, the director of the Mars program, projected a poster with a halftime score on it: Mars 24, Earth 15.
Late in the fall, during a rare lull in his work on the Mars program, Grotzinger and I took a drive to Death Valley due east from his house in lush San Marino, across the front range of the San Gabriels, past Apple Valley and Barstow, and down into the great basin of the Mojave.
Dr. LEVINE: Ira, every four years NASA solicits proposals for a program called the NASA Mars Scout Program.
The overarching strategy of NASA's Mars Exploration Program has long been to follow the water, and Curiosity is no exception.
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"This is the most challenging landing we have ever attempted, " said Doug McCuistion, director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Mars exploration program.
Michael Meyer, lead scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program, said the observations provided the strongest evidence to date that water still flowed occasionally on the surface of Mars.
In Yellowknife Bay, the area where the rover is located, it appears "slightly salty liquid water" was once there, said Michael Meyer, lead scientist for the Mars Exploration Program at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
Roscosmos last June began a Mars flight simulation program, locking three Russians, two Europeans and a Chinese astronaut in an 18, 800-square-foot, five-module complex to live there in isolation for 17 months, Bloomberg reported on April 5.
By organizing the human spaceflight program with Mars in mind, NASA can develop a near-term investment and exploration agenda that gets us somewhere interesting without any additional commitment of funding.
By refocusing our space program on Mars for America's future, we can restore the sense of wonder and adventure in space exploration that we knew in the summer of 1969.
Once complete, the program is beamed back to Mars, and the cycle starts over.
And Mars really is the only destination that can prevent the kind of funding the manned spaceflight program will require from becoming fatally controversial in the current fiscal environment.
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