Scott wrote: > Who are the key players? > How can I get involved?
By leaning on NASA to do some out-of-the-box thinking. I wrote a long letter on Sunday to the NEO search folks and the NEXT folks (who are proposing the Earth-moon L1 station) suggesting that they combine their interests. Leaving aside the Icepick mission problem (which probably does require radioactive fueling) -- How much of the Europa orbiter or Europa lander(s) mass is fuel? We have already seen how Zubrin could decrease the cost of a Mars mission by manufacturing the fuel for the return trip on Mars. Now that may make NASA uneasy if it doesn't work for some reason -- but with robotic probes you don't have to worry about losing the people. Why not launch the probes to NEOs and have them manufacture the fuel they need *on* the NEO before taking off for Europa? So what if it adds an extra year to the mission but lowers the cost significantly. Once this is developed as a robust technology it makes lots of future space missions cheaper. Robert == You are subscribed to the Europa Icepick mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Project information and list (un)subscribe info: http://klx.com/europa/
