April 15, 2012
"We’re moving quickly to develop options for future Mars exploration missions and pathways. As part of this process, community involvement, including international, is essential for charting the new agency-wide strategy for our future Mars exploration efforts"

— Quote by John Grunsfeld, an astrophysicist, five-time space shuttle astronaut and associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate.  Quote found in a NASA press release titled:  “NASA Planning Group Takes Key Steps for Future Mars Exploration”

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March 20, 2012
"My vision is for a fully reusable rocket transport system between Earth and Mars that is able to re-fuel on Mars - this is very important - so you don’t have to carry the return fuel when you go there. The whole system [must be] reusable - nothing is thrown away. That’s very important because then you’re just down to the cost of the propellant. We will probably unveil the overall strategy later this year in a little more detail, but I’m quite confident that it could work and that ultimately we could offer a round trip to Mars that the average person could afford - let’s say the average person after they’ve made some savings."

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Quote by Elon Musk, SpaceX CEO.  Quote found at an online BBC News article titled “Mars for the ‘average person’”

Mars Spacex

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November 26, 2011
"We are very excited about sending the world’s most advanced scientific laboratory to Mars. MSL will tell us critical things we need to know about Mars, and while it advances science, we’ll be working on the capabilities for a human mission to the Red Planet and to other destinations where we’ve never been."

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Quote by NASA Administrator Charles Bolden.  Quote found at Mars Science Laboratory: NASA Launches Most Capable and Robust Rover To Mars

Curiosity Launch

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August 10, 2011
"In what appears to be seriously big news from a team of NASA-funded researchers, scientists have found evidence that some building blocks of DNA—including two of the four nucleobases that make up our genetic code—found in meteorites were created in space, lending credence to the idea that life is not homegrown but was seeded here by asteroids, meteorites, or comets sometime in Earth’s early lifetime."

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Quote from a August 9, 2011 Popular Science Article:   Found: A Batch of DNA Molecules That Seem To Have Originated in Space

Meteorite and DNA

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Filed under: DNA meteorite NASA research space life human genetic origins 
March 24, 2011
"Small businesses create jobs and power our economy. In fact, small businesses created 64 percent of the net new jobs in America over the past 15 years. And small business hire 40 percent of the high tech workers in the U.S. Small businesses are often started by people with an innovative product, a creative solution or just a passion for something. We are trying to change the way we do business at NASA, and we need the help of small business to get there. We need the energy and ideas that come from small business owners and their employees; we need their entrepreneurial spirit and innovation."

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Quote from NASA Administrator Charles Bolden on his blog post titled “Small Businesses Contribute to Nasa’s Mission ”

NASA's Charles Bolden

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November 9, 2010
"NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has unveiled a previously unseen structure centered in the Milky Way. The feature spans 50,000 light-years and may be the remnant of an eruption from a supersized black hole at the center of our galaxy."

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Quote from online NASA article “NASA’s Fermi Telescope Finds Giant Structure in our Galaxy”

Nasa Fermi Gamma-Ray Telescope

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October 27, 2010
"The teams are required to design a robot, get it to the moon and have it move half a kilometer and send back data and high-resolution pictures. (There’s not been a robot on the moon since the Soviets sent one on their last mission in 1976.) The deadline for the robots is December 31, 2012, and the prize is $20 million. Another $10 million has been set aside for second place and for special tasks, like finding some of the water ice that was just discovered in the moon’s craters."

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Quote found at “NASA’s buying data for future moon missions”  via SmartPlanet

Moon

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September 1, 2010
"Future astronauts might end up living in a moon base created largely from lunar dust and regolith, if a giant 3-D printing device can work on the lunar surface. D-Shape has created full-size sandstone buildings on Earth by using a 3-D printing process similar to how inkjet printers work. It adds a special inorganic binder to sand so that it can build a structure from the bottom up, one layer at a time. The device raises its printer head by just 5 to 10 millimeters for each layer, moving from side to side on horizontal beams as well as up and down on four metal frame columns."

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Quote found at 3D Printing Device Could Build Moon Base from Lunar Dust via A Smarter Planet Tumblr Blog

D-Shape

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