session 2

Title

Long Term Scenarios for Human Moon/Mars Presence

Description

Many studies of human Moon and Mars missions have been conducted in the 35 years since the first Apollo Moon landing. Utilization and colonization of the Moon and Mars will require that a long term, sustainable strategy be developed - and followed. In addition, future lunar and Mars enterprise must be considered as part of an evolving space infrastructure that can utilize the goods and services stemming from colonies to enhance or enable ever more ambitious human and robotic space exploration goals. This session will address strategic aspects of political, philosophical, legal and commercial “enablers”, including technological road maps and benefits to humanity that might result from human exploration and ultimately colonization. A goal of the session is the advancement of a strategy leading toward self-supporting colonies.

Date

2011-10-05

Time

15:00

Room

TS-14

IPC members

• Chairman: Mr. William H. Siegfried, The Boeing Company, United States;

• Chairman: Prof. Uwe Apel, Hochschule Bremen, Germany;

• Rapporteur: Dr. Nadeem Ghafoor, Avalon Space, Canada;