science and exploration

The Vision for Space Exploration, announced by President Bush in January 2004 at NASA, offers new opportunities for the nation by setting reachable goals in space within a reasonable budgetary envelope. The key to creating new capability is to use the abundant resources of space to make spaceflight cheaper and easier. The new vision will generate an expanding sphere of human and robotic reach into the solar system. APL is poised to make major contributions to this new vision and to the nation's efforts in space.