Location: Second Floor Stacks
A report on humanity's imminent potential for living in space. Covers topics ranging from China's 2020 space station and the colonization of Mars to space-elevator innovations and the mapping of Earth-like exo-planets.
The Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration (COMPLEX) of the Space Studies Board recognizes the importance of returning samples from Mars for study in terrestrial laboratories. In this report evaluating prospective missions to Mars, COMPLEX assigned the highest priority to sample return missions.
Hearing before the Subcommittee on Science and Space of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, first session, April 23, 2013.