February 2025 workshop: "Human Exploration Enables Science" white-paper briefing (industry and academia deck)¶
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slide: "Human Exploration Enables Science: Science Mission Directorate White Papers", "February 2025", Brad Bailey,
Assistant Deputy Associate Administrator for Exploration, Science Mission Directorate. Text:
sources/text/docs/2025-02-2025-ia-workshop-wp-exploration-enables-science.txt; images in
sources/raw/slides/2025-02-2025-ia-workshop-wp-exploration-enables-science/. Read from the images: the text-poor
slides 2, 8 and 9, and slide 7 (the title slide, 1, was not viewed; its text gives title and presenter). No "Moon Base", "CUI" or "Pre-Decisional" in the text (searched).
What it is. SMD's briefing of two 2024 white papers, Humans in Space to Accomplish Science Objectives and Priority Science Objectives Enabled through NASA's Moon to Mars Architecture, at the industry and academia workshop of February 2025. The partners' workshop had the same slides (international copy). Slides 3 and 5 reprint each paper's first page with its key takeaways; slide 6 repeats the second paper's Table 1 (six lunar science challenges and their LPS objectives). It adds almost nothing to the papers: the papers' content is on Why Moon to Mars and Utilization Systems.
Slides¶
| Slide | Title, as printed | What it holds |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Human Exploration Enables Science: Science Mission Directorate White Papers | Title and presenter |
| 2 | (none) | An uncaptioned artist's picture: a suited astronaut at an instrument on the lunar surface, a tall lander behind |
| 3 | White Paper: Humans in Space to Accomplish Science Objectives | The paper's first page and three takeaways |
| 4 | Key Science Community Documents | Four reports (below) |
| 5 | White Paper: Priority Science Objectives Enabled though the Moon to Mars Architecture | The second paper's first page, Table 1 and the first paper's takeaways |
| 6 | Science Implementation | Table 1 again: "Lunar Science Challenges from Science Community" |
| 7 | Artemis III Science Team | The Artemis III Science Definition Team, with a link to its report |
| 8 | Summary | The takeaways and an uncaptioned Apollo surface photograph |
| 9 | (none) | An uncaptioned photograph: an astronaut beside a large boulder, a lunar rover in the foreground |
| 10 | Questions and Discussion | Four discussion prompts |
What the slides add to the papers¶
- Four documents (slide 4), as "Decadal surveys, NASA documents, and science community reports establish priority topics for human exploration science": the National Research Council's "The Scientific Context for Exploration of the Moon (2007)"; the National Academies' "Origins, Worlds, and Life (2022)"; NASA's "Artemis III Science Definition Report"; and MEPAG's "Report of MEPAG Tiger Team on Mars Human Mission Science Objectives (2023)". All four are the reports the first paper quotes (source page); none is among the wiki's sources.
- Slide 6's banner: "The Moon to Mars Objectives map to key science community priorities; the Moon to Mars Architecture creates opportunities to conduct scientific investigations".
- The Artemis III science team (slide 7, read from the image): "Lunar Science Lead" Dr. Noah Petro (Goddard); the "Science Definition Team" co-chairs Renee Weber (Marshall), Barbara Cohen (Goddard) and Sam Lawrence (Johnson); eight civil servant members from Johnson, Goddard, Marshall, Ames and USGS Astrogeology; and consultants "Amy Fagan, LEAG Chair", "Carlé Pieters, SSERVI Distinguished Scientist" and "Juliane Gross, CAPTEM Lunar Sample Subcommittee Chair". A link to the "Artemis III Science Definition Report". The text layer separates names from centers; the image pairs them.
- Summary wording (slide 8): "Reports from the space science community and NASA documents have consistently called for well-designed partnerships between astronauts and robotic explorers", where slide 5 says "between human and robotic explorers".
- Discussion prompts (slide 10): how organizations engage with the science community; which documents have been most helpful "in understanding science priorities for Moon to Mars exploration"; "What aspects of Moon to Mars science remain unclear? What products or information would be most helpful to provide clarity to your organization?"; and "How does science help your organization enable exploration?"
Oddities¶
- "Enabled though" in slide 5's title, as printed.
- "NASA's scientific objectives" on slide 8 where slide 5 has "NASA's science objectives".
Related pages¶
Humans in Space to Accomplish Science Objectives · Priority Science Objectives · Utilization Systems · Why Moon to Mars · Science objectives and the decadal surveys · International copy