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Chris Vancil — (archived)

Depends on who you mean by we.

I think industry should do those things the MMB (AKA VSE) seriously asks for at the Moon without NASA or government directly involved.

On converting MRO to another LRO (one is being design and built) read Larry's post above. There are serious thermal issues.

The orbits for the Moon that are stable are much closer and very much more elliptical than those at Mars. I think this renders the optics used on the three imaging systems on MRO useless and all filters would need to be replace as well.

If they need more data than LRO will supply why not ask for a second optimally built for the Moon Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)?

As I said before the MRO is built is set to fly in August is a key spacecraft for Mars exploration. Tom is try only to screw with Mars exploration and he would rather it stop. I think there is more to this than economics and that Tom an economist doesn't get this is no surprise.

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