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Apollo Inspires New Moon Rockets, two teams at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration are studying booster rocket design concepts.

One team, assembled by the space agency's Exploration Directorate, has been examining rocket designs from the top down, according to Michael Lembeck, who heads the directorate's Requirements Division.

Second team at NASA's Launch Services group is conducting a bottoms-up review, meaning the services group, which purchases launch vehicles for NASA missions and payloads, is accumulating background on and analyses of all available U.S. boosters and their capabilities.

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/rocketscience-04x.html

Apollo Inspires New Moon Rockets, two teams at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration are studying booster rocket design concepts.

One team, assembled by the space agency's Exploration Directorate, has been examining rocket designs from the top down, according to Michael Lembeck, who heads the directorate's Requirements Division.

Second team at NASA's Launch Services group is conducting a bottoms-up review, meaning the services group, which purchases launch vehicles for NASA missions and payloads, is accumulating background on and analyses of all available U.S. boosters and their capabilities.

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/rocketscience-04x.html

Speaking of space telescope have we forgotten that we have the Spitzer infrared unit.
http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/

The pictures:
The telescope gathers infrared light, an invisible form of electromagnetic radiation associated with heat. It allows astronomers to see through layers of dust, which block visible light, and detect heat emitted by deeply embedded dust around myriad cosmic objects. The heat is infrared energy on the electromagnetic spectrum between the wavelengths of 3 and 180 microns. Much like the JWST will do just a different size band of frequencies or wave lengths.

Cape-launched telescope offers a galactic glimpse
Spitzer eyes infrared part of spectrum
http://www.flatoday.com/news....ZER.htm

Well here is the solar cell resource reference that you just described. Some great graphics also.

http://www.spaceagepub.com/pdfs/Ignatiev.pdf

http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlin … tovolt.pdf

Lots of chemical equations,
http://www.asi.org/adb/02/08/solar-cell-production.html

It would also be a good bit of science to create such an experiment while in orbit on the ISS. Sending up sample bags of soil combination possibilities and running the experiment on a platform while in space suits if human contact is needed to make it run or from remote link with lots of cameras in the vacuum of space. Also a gas collection system should be devised to gather any chemical discharge while heating the soils.

You are welcome deagleninja.
A lot of the old cold war additudes and justifications are fading with time as more nations begin there own trips towards freedom and democracy in some form or another. Cooperation is the key to this continual growth of freindship and of trust as we move forward into the space age.

Only problem from the American side is that Nasa can not pay for any Russian equipment.

But a Privately own organization or business could if it could make a profit by doing so.

Nasa needs high density maps and Radar imaging or sensing of resources such as water in addition to other minerals. Why not sell the data back to Nasa.

What else would Nasa need to get man back on the Moon?
Not only doing science but staying longer than a few days on the surface, what will the need?

Small numbers in any early colony is more a matter of resources versus hardship if over population is introduced within a small regional area. This leads to crime.

We know that a mere 20 million would be enough to purchase one but now how would you get it though customers, though all the other regulations and such... Could they instead build to order a stripped out unit and allow for customization of it on or near the launch site.

Though not about Da Vinci it is about the xprize and being inovative for finaincing of there project.

Snipet:
Space leftovers for sale:
Rocket science is a dirty, messy business, as amply illustrated by this month's space-race mishaps involving Space Transport Corp. and Armadillo Aerospace. But in this age of Internet commerce, even when the rocket goes to pieces, the scraps don't necessarily go to waste.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3217961/

While AI is a must in any rovers or robot we send to the moon or to Mars it sure would pay if we could meld the two together.

Backyard telescope helps find new planet
4-inch instrument detects world 500 light-years away

snipet:
With the help of a modified backyard telescope, astronomers have discovered a giant planet orbiting another star. It is the first extrasolar world found with such modest equipment.

Hubble might find water in TrES-1, and the telescope would "give us a much more precise measurement of the planet's size, and even allow us to search for moons.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5807650/

Beagle 2 Scientist Wants NASA 'Piggy-Back' to Mars

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3399417