Advising NASA on the Soon-to-be-Redirected Asteroid Redirect Mission
Invitation to Membership on the Formulation Assessment and Support Team for the Asteroid Redirect Mission
“The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) intends to release a letter of invitation for membership on the Formulation Assessment and Support Team (FAST) for the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM). ARM is part of NASA’s plan to advance the new technologies and spaceflight capabilities needed for a human mission to the Martian system in the 2030s, as well as other future human and robotic missions. ARM includes the Asteroid Redirect Robotic Mission (ARRM) and the Asteroid Redirect Crewed Mission (ARCM), along with leveraging the global asteroid-observation community’s efforts to detect, track and characterize candidate asteroids. For additional information on how to apply for FAST membership …”
NASA Advisory Council Wants to Cancel Asteroid Redirect Mission and Send it to Phobos Instead, earlier post
Send a crew to Phobos instead. It would combine many of the virtues of an asteroid mission with a Mars sample return, as well as being a big step towards crewed missions to the surface. First do a Dawn-on-Steroids robotic mission to survey the terrain of course, land at several locations, and bring back samples. This could be done with SLS, at the 2022 launch opportunity using the high-powered solar-electric propulsion module(I hope) proposed for the ARM mission.
,,,, Blush. Always read the entire item carefully in full, before responding.
How much would doing both cost?
I think I would want to test everything possible locally before flying it 35 million miles.
Any idea of who will be invited and what they will be asked to do?