session 5

Title

The ISECG Global Exploration Roadmap: Missions and Technologies Advancing Towards Mars

Description

This panel seeks a concentrated discussion on the GER, looking for innovative solutions and ideas to advance its strategy for coordinated human and robotic exploration. It will have two sub-panels. The first will focus on design reference missions, both early and long term. Discussing missions which meet the GER’s common goals and objective will highlight the benefits provided by advanced technologies. The second will focus on technology challenges for enabling human Mars missions with a discussion on what agencies are investing in today that can lead to the advanced technologies that will eventually be essential for a sustainable and affordable international space exploration effort. It will discuss how early deployment of many of these technologies will significantly enhance our ability to explore intermediate destinations such as the Moon and asteroids.

Date

2012-05-24

Time

10:30

Room

Renoir

IPC members

• Moderator: Mr. James Free, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), United States;

• Moderator: Mr. Steve Creech, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), United States;

• Plenary organizer: Mr. Jason Hundley, Zero Point Frontiers Corp., United States;

• Plenary organizer: Mr. James Free, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), United States;