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[i]"If propellant was available from the moon, this could dramatically lower the mass needed from the Earth for a NASA Mars mission," Gerstenmaier said. NASA officials have begun talking about an "Evolvable Mars Campaign," which recognizes the technical and financial challenges of reaching Mars, and the likelihood that the United States would not support an all-out, Apollo-like plan. ...with this "evolvable" campaign, which should be publicly released later this year, NASA is moving away from a flags-and-footprints approach used during the Apollo era to a more step-by-step, sustainable path. NASA is considering how to launch assets into space that could be built upon by subsequent missions, and ways of using resources in space that would reduce the burden of launching them from Earth.[/i]
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