<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a4574d4b-a3d2-4110-9459-f1d8276c01d7/D3C407CF-EE9E-4297-AE7D-275AB3B97870/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.boingboing.net/2007/03/26/interplanetary_suppl.html" href="http://www.boingboing.net/2007/03/26/interplanetary_suppl.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.boingboing.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.boingboing.net/2007/03/26/interplanetary_suppl.html"><H3><A _moz-rs-heading="" name="033878">Interplanetary supply chain</A></H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.boingboing.net/2007/03/26/interplanetary_suppl.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.boingboing.net/img/E4A25F06-2F3B-4929-A974-0EE8E5B412A6" alt=" Newsoffice 2007 Spacenet-Graphic-Enlarged" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.boingboing.net/2007/03/26/interplanetary_suppl.html"><A name="033878"> MIT researchers are designing a software tool for interplanetary logistics, essentially a method to model how materials--fuel, food, parts, etc.--could flow from Earth to the International Space Station, the Moon, Mars, or other off-world destinations. From the MIT News Office: </A><BLOCKQUOTE><A name="033878"><DIV><IMG width="300" vspace="4" hspace="4" height="225" border="1" align="left" alt=" Newsoffice 2007 Spacenet-Graphic-Enlarged" src="http://www.boingboing.net/images/_newsoffice_2007_spacenet-graphic-enlarged.jpg" />While "supply chain" usually refers to the flow of goods and materials in and out of manufacturing facilities, distribution centers and retail stores, (aeronautics and astronautics engineer Olivier) de Weck said that a well-designed interplanetary supply chain would operate on much the same principles, with certain complicating factors. Transportation delays could be significant--as much as six to nine months in the case of Mars--and shipping capacity will be very limited. This will require mission planners to make difficult trade-offs between competing demands for different types of supplies.</DIV></A></BLOCKQUOTE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.boingboing.net/2007/03/26/interplanetary_suppl.html"> A reliable supply chain will "improve exploration capability</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D3C407CF-EE9E-4297-AE7D-275AB3B97870/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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