The President has referred to the Space Exploration Initiative (SEI) as the "Mission from planet Earth". This paper looks at the SEI from an information system perspective and discusses information system definition efforts being conducted in support of NASA's Lunar Mars Exploration Program Office (LMEPO) at JSC. The development of an integrated, effective SEI information System (SIS) is recognized as crucial t o the success of the SEI missions. This paper outlines some of the new and unique challenges for the SIS as evidenced in the Lunar and the Mars missions along with soma preliminary conceptual approaches, both architectural and technological, being investigated to address them.
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