The results from the current mission will be essential for developing a better understanding of the actual asteroid environment, and for making large advances in asteroid science.

Clearly, the lessons learned from this mission will fundamentally influence all future asteroid rendezvous missions.

It would be helpful to have a similar type of mission go to an asteroid and compare the results, ... That mission is Deep Interior. It has been proposed in the past to NASA's Discovery program, but has not been accepted.

The facilities don't allow us to achieve our mission or strategic plan fully in our current state.

It is essential that we have a safe and reliable servicing mission to Hubble,

They maintained an intimate relationship with their environment and were capable of understanding exactly where and when particular resources could be found in abundance.