Panel Chair: Marcia Smith (Space and Technology Policy Group)
Dwayne Day (National Research Council): The National Research Council's Role in the American Planetary Exploration Program.
Roger Handberg (University of Central Florida): The Politics of Pure Space Science, the Essential Tension, Human Spaceflight's Impact on Scientific Exploration
Jason W. Callahan (The Tauri Group): Funding Planetary Science: History and Political Economy
John M. Logsdon (George Washington University) and Andre Bormanis (IndependentWriter/Producer): The Survival Crisis of The Planetary Program