Posted by tourdemars to Project Prometheus at March 8, 2004 11:55 AM

NASA’s new Office of Exploration Systems, known in the jargon as Code T, has already given rise to a number of wisecracks about the agency’s new space race. Which will come first, astronauts beyond low Earth orbit or the end of the alphabet? In any case, the idea behind Code T seems logical enough if one accepts the premise that human and robotic exploration must be complementary. How then, to explain the fact that the Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (JIMO) mission is going to be run by the new office?