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Thanks also to those of you who watched the webcast and engaged on Twitter. It was like you were with us at #Planets50
Thanks to panelists, chairs, our host @LockheedMartin and all the support staff. You made #Planets50 an awesome event.
Solar System Exploration @50 is now done, but not gone. Catch the video archive on Ustream. #Planets50
Our last panel fields questions at Solar System Exploration @ 50. #Planets50
It's really neat that so many participants were inspired to speak about the future while reflecting on the past. #Planets50
@NatGeoLive thanks for the #FF. Solar System Exploration @50 is worthy of some serious tweeting! #Planets50
Kaminski (formerly of OMB) says it's not bad guy in planetary budgets: people there care about space program, have passion for it #planets50
Beichman -continuing to speculate, 3/10 of those yet to be found habitable planets have photosynthetic life. #Planets50
Bugos: human settlement of the solar system is a compelling idea that needs to be kept in mind when discussing planetary expl. #planets50
Chas Beichman, Caltech -envisions the future of the hunt for exoplanets, 10 found in the habitable zone in the next 50 years. #Planets50
Hubbard: the biggest remaining technical challenge for a Mars sample return mission is the ascent vehicle. #planets50
Hubbard -given the present technology, a Mars sample return mission can now be planned. #Planets50
Scott Hubbard: I canceled Mars sample return mission on the books in 2000 because we didn't know where to send it. Know that now. #planets50
G. Scott Hubbard, Stanford -decade of Mars missions has helped us learn about Mars, and it will serve as prep for a sample return.#Planets50
Kaminiski: similarly, a variety of sociotechnical factors led to NASA gradually abandoning FBC after the MCO and MPL failures. #planets50
Kaminiski: Goldin credited with introducing "faster, better, cheaper" at NASA, but a confluence of factors led to its adoption. #planets50
Jim Green honors his predecessor Bob Kramer, who led @NASA planetary programs in the 1970s. #Planets50
Amy Paige Kaminski (NASA) -the Reagan Administration contemplated cancelling robotic solar system exploration. #Planets50
Amy Paige Kaminiski: space exploration is a "sociotechnical" system whose actors include NASA, scientists, media, politicians #planets50
Bugos-they did become precursors for humans on the moon, but that was not the first intent. #Planets50
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