Talk:Astrobiology Field Laboratory

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[NASA Briefing Charts: Mars Exploration Program Status Planetary Sciences Subcommittee of NAC]

I like the sentence from Doug McCuistion (Mars Exploration Program, Director): NASA’s 2018 lander mission is ill-defined WRT critical science and technology

--Stone (talk) 14:31, 29 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Joint venture

With the new Mars Joint Exploration Initiative (October 2009) NASA and ESA will pool resources for the long-term exploration of Mars. After the Mars Science Laboratory rover and the MAX-C rover (ExoMars mission) focused on astrobiology, I doubt NASA will fund this project as proposed, especially if their results are negative for past life. Please keep alert for updates on this project, if any. --BatteryIncluded (talk) 03:31, 23 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Proposal was not funded

The AFL proposal was not funded and it is no longer listed by NASA under study or development:

Not in JPL database: [1]
Not in NASA database: http://science.nasa.gov/search/?q=astrobiology+field+laboratory
NASA Missions: http://science.nasa.gov/missions/
Mars Exploration Program: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/programmissions/missions/

Therefore, I updated the article.--BatteryIncluded (talk) 03:11, 27 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]