#NASA #NatlAcademies - Will be covering the first session with NASA's Nicky Fox

Today's full Agenda

#NASA #NatlAcademies - Fox - " NASA must support a thriving lunar economy, have to successfully execute the missions in front of us :

#NASA #NatlAcademies - Objectives

#NASA #NatlAcademies - Science Priorities as they apply to the Decadal Survey

#NASA #NatlAcademies - When approaching science objectives want to use the tools we have strategically, can yuse robotics where needed and use Astronauts to make split second analysis. If properly equipped, humans can use different skillsets, NASA will determine how to leverage both.

#NASA #NatlAcademies - Rundown of the successful #FireflyAerospace #BlueGhost1 lander a rundown of the instruments that the vehicle carried, CLPS is about growing a community that can serve many customers and allows for flexibility in payload complements. Another 2 CLPS missions planned for '25.

#NASA #NatlAcademies - Astronauts can collect more samples than robotic missions can conduct traverses for better sample diversity, can deploy stations over a wide area, can conduct tests for an initial layout and then re-deploy those experiments. NASA is pushing fwd with DSN modernization.

#NASA #NatlAcademies - Vision for Global Lunar Science

#NASA #NatlAcademies - Q: Want to define "Poles" When you define Pole how big how small is that? How does the North Pole factor in respect of the South Pole? A: Joel Kerns: South Pole is defined as Lattitudes 84 Deg South. We're not focusing in on the North Pole right now.

#NASA #NatlAcademies - Q: How does Human and Robotics pair? A: Fox: Both has a role, everything we do at NASA is exploration, we can send robotic explorers into the areas humans can't get to, Going to Mars? what are the 10things we need to know before we send humans? For the moon ...