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From a recent interview, Griffin states that the space station is not relevant to the Lunar part of the VSE. He does, however, see it important to a Mars mission.<blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr /><p><font color="yellow"><b>Q:</b> As long as you don't have to understand it for me! (laughter) How do you view station in the context of returning to the moon?</font><br /><br /><b>A:</b> Station is not relevant to the moon. That's why I said the order of the things we've done is not what I would have had it be as a technical person. That said, we'll use the station, maybe to check out hardware that will be used on a lunar base in the future. i think we can make some use of the station for our development of a lunar base in the longer run. But really, in my mind the station is far more useful in terms of thinking about Mars. Which gets back to my issue, we didn't get things in the right chronological order to get the maximum utility out of it.<p><hr /></p></p></blockquote><br />http://www.spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts115/060815griffin/