Scott Horowitz
Scott Horowitz
Scott Jay "Doc" Horowitzis a retired American astronaut and a veteran of four space shuttle missions...
ProfessionAstronaut
Date of Birth24 March 1957
CityPhiladelphia, PA
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This signifies a new era in space transportation with a greater role for commercial space providers. We look forward to being able to purchase services for routine access to space, as NASA explores the moon, Mars, and beyond.
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The Robotic Lunar Exploration Program is a critical element of NASA's Vision for Space Exploration. Data collected will help determine where we go, and what we find during our first human missions to the lunar surface.
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Thinking about the politicsthe timingwe need to fly this thing soon. If we want to fly something before this Presidential term is out, we have about two years to build this. Actually, we're starting to get schedule crunched.
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We do see an outpost of some sort. We just don't know what it looks like yet.
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We are thinking about going to Mars. Everyone that's working on this is thinking about going to Mars. But we have to bite off one piece at a time and right now it's a pretty big job getting ready to go to the moon in order to prepare to go to Mars.
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We know that there's hydrogen there?but there is a huge debate as to what that hydrogen is locked up with. If there is water there, that's a big deal?a huge impact on how we do exploration.
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The Apollo program was very goal-driven. Get people to the moon. Get them back safely. Mission done. The big difference with the (new) exploration vision is that the moon is not the goal. The moon is a steppingstone.
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What this mission buys us is an early attempt to get to know what the resources are. We know for sure that for human exploration to succeed we're going to have to eventually live off the land.
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What this mission buys us is an early attempt at getting to know what some of the resources are there that have large implications on what we do in future exploration, especially in the near term as we go and do the missions to the Moon and as we're preparing to go . . . to Mars. We know for sure that for human exploration to succeed, we're going to have to learn eventually to live off the land.
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We were really happy to take part in delivering Expedition Three to orbit and they're having a great mission right now up there on the space station.
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We bought it on the spot and reordered it four times in the last four months. We sell out every time we get it in. It's unbelievable. Nobody expects a baby rattle to be fully encrusted in crystals. And each piece is a work of art.
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We know for sure that for human exploration to succeed, we're going to have to learn to live off the land.
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This is going to be an example of how we're going to do a lot of missions in future years at NASA.
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Sounds like a great day to come on home,