1. Welcome! To The Restructured, Reconfigured, NASA Advisory Council! Introductory slide courtesy of Harrison Schmitt, NAC Chairman

2. News Flash: RLEP is dead. New lunar exploration program is called LPRP. Program has moved from GSFC, then to Ames, and now to MSFC. Program has been in flux since its inception – an evolving implementation has resulted and with evolving leadership at HQ and at field centers Will lunar exploration live beyond October 2008? Cost of RLEP-2 (now called LPRP-2 or maybe even LPRP-1?) is higher than originally anticipated. The whole program is being revisited in light of latest costings.

3. Science Subcommittee Conference #06-2 Lunar Science Workshop Planning Proposed Discussion Points Overall Conference Objectives (Historically Comparable to 1965 Woods Hole Conference for Apollo) Consider Exploration Science, Lunar Science, and Lunar-Based Science for a Return to the Moon Develop Science Objectives and Priorities as Contribution to Return to the Moon Program Planning, Spacecraft Design, Training, and Operations Consider Decadal Survey and other Strategic Inputs (This and all remaining slides culled from content in H. Schmitt’s NAC presentation and Heliophysics Subcommittee’s Lunar Science Workshop planning document.)

4. Organizational Issues for Subcommittee Consideration (Particularly PSS) Agenda for workshop including identification of breakout groups Attendance including the roles for the LEAG, MEPAG and potentially other AGs Invited papers and possible letters to solicit such papers Pre-workshop documents for attendees Role of Science Committee members Role of SSB Potential opportunities for international cooperation

5. Planetary Sciences: Possible Specific Exploration and Lunar Science Considerations Testing of Giant Impact Hypothesis Age(s) of Extremely Large Basin(s) Testing of Impact “Cataclysm” Hypothesis Calibration of Hadean (Earliest Pre-Cambrian) Impact History of Earth and Inner Solar System Global Delineation of Internal Structure of the Moon Extent of Magma Ocean Distribution of Mg-Suite Parent Igneous Bodies in the Crust Original Distribution of Magma Ocean Residual Liquid (urKREEP) Structure / Compositional Details of Upper Mantle Lower Mantle Characteristics / Mapping of Upper and Lower (Core) Boundaries Timing of Lunar Core Formation and Dynamo Circulation Global Sampling / Remote Sensing Correlations of Major Geological and Geochemical Units Depositional History of Polar Cometary Volatiles Determination of Resource Distribution & In Situ Concentrations, Particularly at the Poles Testing of Mars Sampling Systems and Strategies Lunar-Based Instrumentation Networks Seismometers / Retro-reflectors / Magnetometers / Etc.

6. Subcommittee-Specific Possible Lunar-Based Science Considerations Astrophysics Potential Role for the Moon as Observatory Platform Radio-astronomy Constant view Polar observations Information for Evaluation of Designs of Potential Lunar-based Observatories Additional Characterization of Lunar Environment Dust Migration / Precipitation / Rejection Geotechnical Parameters for Construction Seismic Stability Protection of Critical Systems Dust (Note Apollo Retro-reflector Stability) Thermal Cycling Vacuum Radiation Galactic and Solar Radiation History Regolith and Ejecta Blanket Stratigraphy

7. Subcommittee-Specific Possible Lunar-Based Science Considerations Earth Science Lunar-Based Instrumentation Multi-spectural, Multi-sensor Global O bservation Astrobiological Refinement of Bio-signature (e.g. “Red edge”) Magnetospheric Physics Educational Initiatives Heliophysics Lunar-Based Instrumentation Sun Solar Wind Solar Wind-Magnetosphere interaction Solar Wind-Lunar surface interaction Regolith and Ejecta Blanket Stratigraphy Solar Wind Composition and Energy over Time

8. Subcommittee-Specific Possible Lunar-Based Science Considerations Planetary Protection Testing of Systems and Strategies in an Extreme Environment Sample Container Sealing Container Dust Containment Microbe & Organic Molecules Viability Planetary Science (non-lunar) Very Low Pressure Clathrate Experimentation (Europa and Mars) Martian Field Exploration Systems and Approaches