Now Pell is back with a new start-up working on space exploration, Moon Express.
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If they can meet the Dec. 31, 2015 deadline, they will help open the Moon for private and commercial exploration and exploitation.
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That's why President Kennedy pointed us to the moon, knowing that the exploration of the skies above would lead to unimagined discoveries here on Earth.
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Efforts to revive exploration of the moon also are being commissioned by private companies, lured in part by the cash and prestige of winning an X Prize.
The European Space Agency believes the vehicle's capabilities will feed into many other exploration activities, at the Moon, Mars and other Solar System destinations.
Today's commercial rockets can lift only about 10 tons into space, far short of what is needed to enable deep-space exploration returning to the Moon, and later venturing on to Mars the things that are and should be NASA's core mission.
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Establishing an extended human presence on the moon could vastly reduce the cost of further space exploration, making possible ever more ambitious missions.
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Last week President Bush gave his full backing to NASA's project to create a lunar base, and many believe that the moon could be a jumping off point for Martian exploration.
It's a tremendous step, the first of many as we get into exploration of the Solar System, back to the Moon and on to Mars.
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There is no appetite to return to the moon, let alone push on to Mars, El Dorado of space exploration.
Using the crew exploration vehicle, we will undertake extended human missions to the moon as early as 2015, with the goal of living and working there for increasingly extended periods of time.
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With the experience and knowledge gained on the moon, we will then be ready to take the next steps of space exploration: human missions to Mars and to worlds beyond.
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The Space Launch System will be NASA's first exploration-class vehicle since the Saturn V took American astronauts to the moon over 40 years ago.
In other words, human exploration of the solar system does not have to be fixed doggedly on the moon first and Mars later.
This unlikely sounding collaboration is taking place between researchers interested in exploring Lake Vostok in Antarctica, which is sealed off below several kilometres of ice, and planetary scientists, who see such exploration as a possible dress rehearsal for a future robotic mission to Jupiter's moon Europa, whose icy surface is thought to conceal vast oceans that might harbour extraterrestrial life.
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