It has shown what can be done when people from divergent cultures come together to pursue a common goal, and along the way it has captured the popular imagination like no science project since the moon shots of the 1960s.

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Standing beside scale models of research stations on Mars and the moon, Miller said the project will encourage commercial ventures to follow the path NASA blazes into space.

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Unlike the effort to decode the human genome, or the project to put a man on the moon, the mapping of the human brain is a fuzzy endeavor, with no obvious milestones along the way.

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The goal of the project is to develop a detailed gravitational map of the Moon, which can then be compared to topographical maps on the Moon to build a picture of what the inside of the Moon is like.

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"We're ready to put them to work and get ready to put bootprints back on the moon, " says Glenn Lutz, NASA's project manager for Extravehicular Activity Systems at Johnson Space Center in Houston.

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In the A plot, the nine-year-old half brothers Phineas and Ferb fill a summer day with some insanely ambitious project: making a building as high as the moon, a time machine, a roller-coaster.

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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.

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