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Science 12 May 2006:
Vol. 312. no. 5775, p. 827
DOI: 10.1126/science.312.5775.827d
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NASA plans to send a bevy of missions to the moon in coming years, and it has asked the National Academies' National Research Council for advice on what to do there. Among other things, NASA Science Mission Directorate Chief Scientist Paul Hertz last week told researchers that the agency wants to know what kinds of experiments could fit into a suitcase-sized box that future astronauts could deploy on the surface, similar to what Apollo astronauts left behind during their forays in the 1970s.

The work raises fears of further science budget erosion at NASA (see p. 824), and Hertz warned that "there isn't new money to do [lunar] science, but there are new opportunities." An interim version of the fast-track report is due to NASA in September, and the final report will be completed late next spring.




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