Boeing Led Team Charts Course for Future Mars Exploration

A boeing led Team has been awarded one of Nasa's four $1 million dollar contracts from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. to study Mars sample return mission in 2011. The Boeing team is full of various scientists with skilled expertise such as Space Development, field robotics, Innovative orbital Design, space transporation architects, and specialists. Together the Boeing led team ambitiously hopes to select, collect, and return samples from Mars. Program Manager Brent Sherwood stated "We know that the most sampling locations are precisely the hardest to land near, and to operate robots within." Upcoming technological advances will expand the role of robotics in future planetary exploration as well. Boeing intends to completely back this team in whatever the needs may be in hopes of becoming involved in potentially the biggest mars exploration mission ever. Boeing also intends to bring in partners involved in the development of its technology to assist in such a large project to gain recognition and accomplishment.