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Projects: S.O.S: Save Our Science!Press RoomMedia contact: To find out about other Planetary Society projects and initiatives go to our Media Center.
The "Don't Trash Space Science" Ad CampaignThis provacative campaign debuted in Washington D.C. area
newspapers and online May, 25, 2006 Recent Save Our Science Press Releases:June 14 , 2006 - House Subcommittee Helps Save Our Science Pasadena, CA, — The fiscal year 2007 budget proposed by the Administration for NASA threatens to end a dazzling era of planetary exploration. Today, the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Science, the Departments of State, Justice, and Commerce, and Related Agencies marked-up the NASA budget, prior to sending the budget to full Committee. more » March 25, 2006 - Planetary Society Presents a New World to Congress Pasadena, CA, —May 25 marks the 45th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's 1961 speech to Congress launching the Apollo Program. Almost half a century later, The Planetary Society will remind Congress today of the vision needed to undertake such space ventures by hosting a special presentation in Washington DC that features filmmaker James Cameron, Bill Nye the Science Guy, planetary scientist Heidi B. Hammel, and Society Executive Director Louis Friedman. more » February 16, 2006 - Planetary Society Presents to Congress a Better Path for NASA "The Bush Administration's proposed 5-year budget for NASA, just submitted to Congress, is an attack on science," states the opening line of The Planetary Society's statement submitted to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Thursday morning, February 16, 2006. Read the complete statement on the Society's website. more » February 6, 2006 - Planetary Society Charges Administration with Blurring
its Vision for Space Exploration Fact SheetFind out what is cut, cancelled, and delayed by the 2007 NASA buget. . .Download (PDF 332KB) Images
An artist's conception of SIM PlanetQuest, the Space Interferometry Mission. Credit: NASA
This visible light coronagraph is one part of the Terrestrial Planet Finder program, which also includes an infrared interferometer. Credit: NASA
Conceptual rendering of how SOFIA may look. Credit: NASA
A NASA JPL artist imagines a laser beam from the Mars Telecommunications Orbiter carrying science data from the Red Planet to Earth as an interplanetary extension of the Internet. Credit: NASA / JPL
In the second decade of the 21st century, NASA plans additional science orbiters, rovers, and landers. One proposal is for a Mars Sample Return mission that would use robotic systems and a Mars ascent rocket to collect and send samples of martian rocks, soils, and atmosphere to Earth for detailed chemical and physical analysis. Researchers on Earth could measure chemical and physical characteristics much more precisely than they could by remote control. On Earth, they would have the flexibility to make changes as needed for intricate sample preparation, instrumentation, and analysis if they encountered unexpected results. In addition, for decades to come, the collected Mars rocks could yield new discoveries as future generations of researchers apply new technologies in studying them. Credit: NASA / JPL |
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