President's Commission on Moon, Mars and Beyond

Here is my comment to the commission. Please be
curteous, concise, and to the point. Make them think
we are excited about the prospect.

"Please consider that the US and world is watching the
emergence of robotic technologies in hazardous
environments. NASA can play a pivotal role in the
development and standardization of remote controlled
utility robots.

This is a boon to the IT industry to furnish the parts
and software. This is a boon to US manufacturing to
produce reliable robots for undersea and hostile
environments (including the military). This is a boon
for science on a budget to determine if there is water
in quantity in the perminently shadowed craters of the
moon.

I encourage you to consider the benefits that a well
developed base on the moon would offer to visiting
astronauts - especially if it was built for them in
advance by robots.

Sincerely, Thor Olson
"