NASA's Exploration Plans and Progress

www.nasa.gov/sls8233_Tech America.28212_NEO.2www.nasa.gov/sls"This expanded role for the private sector will free up more of NASA's resources to do what NASA does best -tackle the most demanding technological challenges in space, including those of human space flight beyond low-Earth orbit."-John P. Holdren, Science and Technology Assistant to the President The White House, May 22, 2012 "My desire is to work more closely with the human spaceflight program so we can take advantage of synergy.We think of the SLS as the human spaceflight program, but it could be hugely enabling for science.