A study committee is due to report to NASA management later this month on how the NASA science program might team up with NASA's human exploration program to explore Mars together.
In practice, this means celebrating the act of looking back to find something innovative and original: using imaginative programming to explore vital connections between old and new.
The classes, which cost $100, are part of a pilot program to explore ways of addressing challenges faced by immigrant entrepreneurs.
In candid reports assessing recent problems with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's programs to explore Mars, two panels concluded that pressures to conform to the agency's recent credo of "faster, cheaper, better" ended up compromising ambitious projects.
"This opens up whole new areas for Intel," said Mario Paniccia, a 37-year-old Intel physicist who started the previously secret research program to explore the possibility of using standard semiconductor parts to build optical networks.
Beginning four decades ago, aircraft makers and the federal aviation authorities embarked on a program to explore the possibility of adding chemicals to jet aviation fuel to prevent it from forming a fine mist and mixing with air.
In the United States, the Smithsonian is sponsoring an exhibition including a catalog, Web site, television documentary and educational programming to explore the origins and impact of this moment in history.
The first projects in NASA's streamlined program to explore the solar system, including the $270 million Pathfinder and the $224 million NEAR Shoemaker asteroid rendezvous mission operated by the Johns Hopkins laboratory, were successful because they were adequately financed and staffed.
The F.C.C. also voted in favor of an E-Rate pilot program to explore off-campus wireless Internet connections for mobile learning devices, a practice that Julius Genachowski, the F.C.C. chairman, said would open the way to digital textbooks.
In 1975 the U.S. Geodynamics Committee initiated a research program to explore the continental crust using seismic techniques developed by private industry for the purpose of locating petroleum accumulations in sedimentary rocks.
