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Architectural sampling considerations
Jun. 26th, 2007 06:19 amI'm at JSC this week... more exactly, at the Center for Advanced Space Studies, which is hosting a meeting offsite... to discuss broad requirements for future missions to the Moon and Mars. We're supposed to focus on human EVAs and sample gathering, transport, analysis and curation.
I arrived yesterday afternoon, flight delayed by thunderstorms. But I was assigned to an interesting discussion group. Besides myself, it includes a biologist from the Carnegie Institution, a curator of lunar materials from JSC, a satellite engineer from Ball Aerospace, an atmospheric scientist from Ames, a mission control console operator from Apollo (specialized in EVAs), and the only geologist to actually go to the Moon. So we have had lively-but-well-grounded (so to speak...) discussions.
Back to more of the same, and then at 2pm the test readiness review at JSC for our 10km crew walkback physiological experiment intended for Haughton Crater next month.
I arrived yesterday afternoon, flight delayed by thunderstorms. But I was assigned to an interesting discussion group. Besides myself, it includes a biologist from the Carnegie Institution, a curator of lunar materials from JSC, a satellite engineer from Ball Aerospace, an atmospheric scientist from Ames, a mission control console operator from Apollo (specialized in EVAs), and the only geologist to actually go to the Moon. So we have had lively-but-well-grounded (so to speak...) discussions.
Back to more of the same, and then at 2pm the test readiness review at JSC for our 10km crew walkback physiological experiment intended for Haughton Crater next month.
