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http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.rss.spacewire.html?id=1238<br /><br /><blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr /><p><b>NASA Plans To Form New Lunar Science Institute</b><br /><br /> Tuesday, October 9, 2007<br /><br />On Tuesday night NASA Science Mission Directorate Associate Administrator Alan Stern announced that NASA plans to form a NASA Lunar Science Institute (NLSI) patterned on the NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI).<br /><br />Speaking tonight at the Division for Planetary Sciences meeting in Orlando, Stern said that the initial selection would be done of 4 to 5 lead teams at a cost of $1-2 million each.<br /><br />As is the case with the NAI, the NSLI would be managed by NASA Ames Research Center. <p><hr /></p></p></blockquote> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>