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Exploration of the Moon
Pages 36-39

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... The primary goals for lunar science mission themes in their lists of New Frontiers are threefold. First, the Moon preserves a candidates: the deployment of a global network record -- lost on Earth -- of the earliest history of long-lived geophysical monitoring stations of the solar system, including the ongoing (Figure 42)
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From page 37...
... Lunar Discovery and Exploration Program NASA's other near-term robotic lunar activities commerce. NASA modeled CLPS on successful are organized under the Lunar Discovery programs transporting crew and cargo to the and Exploration Program, whose primary International Space Station, so that rather than components are the Commercial Lunar Payload building and operating its own lunar spacecraft, Services Program and the Volatiles Investigating the agency will pay contractors to deliver Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER)
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From page 38...
... Nevertheless, the decadal survey was so, VIPER will directly address the third science broadly supportive of CLPS, concluding that goal mentioned above and study the potential purchasing delivery services is a promising and use of in situ resources to support future innovative approach which, if successful, might human exploration activities. It is designed to be extended to the delivery of payloads to Mars traverse some 20 km during a lifetime of 100 and asteroids.
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... The retrieval and return to Earth of a substantial While there have been historic tensions between suite of samples collected from diverse locations human and robotic exploration activities, across SPA represents an ideal synergy between astronauts can, with careful planning, address NASA's human and robotic exploration of the important space science goals. Humans bring Moon.
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