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The Mars Society is pleased to announce that former NASA Deputy Administrator Dr. Dava Newman will speak about current planning for human space exploration at the 20th Annual International Mars Society Convention, scheduled for September 7 - 10, 2017 at the University of California Irvine.

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Through space exploration, most of what we do is look back at ourselves, and going to Mars will reveal more about what it means to be an earthling and a human.»

Its chairman, Representative Lamar Smith (R — TX), wanted to shape NASA's plan for human space exploration, research missions, and other activities at the $ 20 billion agency.

The NIC Human Space Flight team at Goddard is already planning the communications for Exploration Mission - 1, the first flight of the agency's new Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft to demonstrate the integrated system performance prior to the first crewed flight.

Both announcements, contained in a brief but passionate speech the president gave before an audience of lawmakers, scientists, engineers, and businessmen at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, are intended to convince Congress that NASA is not handing over the business of human space exploration entirely to the private seSpace Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, are intended to convince Congress that NASA is not handing over the business of human space exploration entirely to the private sespace exploration entirely to the private sector.

An international team of researchers from NASA Ames Research Center, Environmental and Radiation Health Sciences Directorate at Health Canada, Oxford University, Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, Belgian Nuclear Research Centre, Insilico Medicine, the Biogerontology Research Center, Boston University, Johns Hopkins University, University of Lethbridge, Ghent University, Center for Healthy Aging and many others have published a roadmap toward enhancing human radioresistance for space exploration and colonization in the peer - reviewed journal Oncotarget.

In October, a report by a White House panel headed by former Lockheed Martin CEO Norman Augustine said NASA would be unable to support meaningful human space exploration without at least $ 3 billion more per year.

The additional funds would support the administration's directive to reinvigorate human and robotic exploration of Earth's moon and other planets in the solar system but would also come at the expense of several other big - ticket items in NASA's portfolio — namely the International Space Station (ISS) as well as the Wide Field Infrared Space Telescope (WFIRST), a «flagship» - class mission next in line for launch after the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

The Spatial Analysis, Interpretation, and Exploration (SAIE) laboratory at Washington University in St. Louis is devoted to understanding human societies through time and across space.

Neither NASA nor the companies will reveal what percentage of the development costs are being borne by the taxpayers, although NASA Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations Bill Gerstenmaier acknowledged at a 2012 House Science, Space and Technology (SS&T) Committee hearing that the government was paying the majority of those costs and did not disagree when asked if it was 80 - 90 percent.

Join the growing number of space enthusiasts dedicated to the robotic and human exploration of the Red Planet by ordering a URC t - shirt or decal at the special web site maintained by the Mars Society and Team Mars (shop.marssociety.org).

NASA Associate Administrators for Human Exploration and Operations (Bill Gerstenmaier) and Space Technology (Steve Jurczyk) will be joined at the witness table by former astronaut Franklin Chang - Diaz (of VASIMR engine fame), Mitchell Walker representing the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Joe Cassady from Aerojet Rocketdyne, and Anthony Pancotti of MSNW LLC, which is developing the NASA - funded Electrodeless Lorentz Force (ELF - 250) thruster and the ElectroMagnetic Plasmoid Thruster (EMPT).

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