New Mars Forums

The results of the Aldrigde Commissions report to Nasa and to the President for the Space Exploration Vision is still progressing with internal and external changes that effect America's space programs.

Mission may be lure at Marshall
Chief hopes planet probe attracts more research, scientists
http://www.al.com/news....850.xml

On Mars, More Water From Pricey Plumbing
What do you do with all the waste on the long journey to Mars?
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/24/scien … 4mars.html

Just found this site with regards to the shuttle from an ex employee who has tried the chain of command inside nasa to make the vehicle safer with an escape pod.
http://www.nasaproblems.com/

We will need to keep the media from pre-announcing state electorial status while polls are open for projected winners of each state.

Who says that you need a large telescope?

Small telescope reveals new planet
http://www.cnn.com/2004....ex.html

A tiny telescope has spotted a giant planet circling a faraway star, using a technique that could open a new phase of planetary discovery, scientists said Tuesday.
The small telescope with a 4-inch diameter -- about the size that some backyard astronomers might use -- tracked the periodic dimming of light from a bright star 500 light-years away that found this latest planet is part of a network of modest instruments called the Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey, known as TrES.

The US-China space cooperation In this week's issue of The Space Review, Taylor Dinerman discusses the potential for cooperation between the US and China on space issues.
Forum topic discusion on this web site:

http://www.spacepolitics.com/

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?