The agency intends in the months ahead to develop a set of possible missions for 2007 or 2009 that draw on Canadian expertise, complement existing international efforts, and appeal to the public's sense of adventure.
Finally, as part of preparations for a possible mission to Mars, astronauts would visit and examine the rock for some 25 days, using the planned Orion spacecraft to make the trip.
But even the senior officer at the Hatzor air base, where pilots were training for a possible mission to Tehran, was clear about the costs.
The reluctance of pilots to join Predator squadrons has been no small matter as the military prepares for a possible mission against Iraq.
This article describes an analysis performed by Astrium to support a suggestion for a possible mission extension to a saddle point crossing.
On its return to Italy the 2nd Parachute Brigade was sent to Rome on 3 September, and moved again on 8 September to a camp near Taranto to prepare for a possible mission in Greece, Operation Manna.
"On whether this is mission impossible, mission possible, mission vaguely possible,….I would say to the BBC you can't have it both ways.
In February 2012, NASA will decide on a possible mission extension.
The procedures developed for M3 STEP (a possible ESA mission) for optimising the sensitivity by selecting materials as 'different' as possible are presented.
Adam Crowl, a board member of Project Icarus, an organisation dedicated to interstellar travel, proposed a possible "escape" mission for a spaceship to ensure mankind's survival in case of a catastrophe on Earth.
