article_snippet.sent: The net payoff will be to enable NASA to acquire and distribute a variety of forms of data at higher resolution, higher bandwidth, higher signal-to-noise, and lower life-cycle cost.'
article_snippet.sent: Our really long-term objective for all of this work is to eventually enable the use of in-situ resources to construct the infrastructure in space needed to support humanity's expansion throughout the solar system,' Dr. Robert Hoyt claimed last month during a presentation with NASA's Future In-Space Operations (FISO) working group.
article_snippet.sent: In a perfect world — if funding flowed and the contracting process didn't drag on forever
highlights_snippet.sent: Could be used to create the infrastructure to get man to Mars .