Planetary Hit-and-Run Among Creative Ideas Nudged by NASA

Posted by tourdemars to Scout Missions at June 16, 2001 12:00 PM

If there is an area of science where extreme creativity is needed, it is in planetary exploration, where the logistics are difficult, the unknowns are great and the costs are high. Perhaps for that reason, NASA has taken the exciting step of soliciting innovative, purely conceptual proposals for Mars exploration from the science community and then funding a select group to develop the concepts further.