Human Exploration

Mars Surveyor Program 2003 Lander Mission - NASA
Commerce Business Daily Issue, June 4, 1999 PSA#2360
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA's) Human Exploration and Development of Space (HEDS) Enterprise solicits proposals for investigations to be carried to the surface of Mars by the MSP 2003 Lander Mission. These investigations will require instrumentation to be developed and placed on a fixed lander platform in order to address scientific investigations of the radiation environment; soil, dust, and environmental interactions; and fundamental biology. Instruments will also be solicited to demonstrate in-situ resource utilization technologies. These investigations will be carried out in addition to the primary Space Science Enterprise mission objectives for Mars sample return. NASA also announces an opportunity to propose definition studies for the mission opportunities in 2005. These opportunities include lander investigations similar to the 2003 opportunity, micromissions, and a dedicated HEDS lander mission. These definition studies should address potential flight experiments for HEDS ...