Gpronger writes "The Johns Hopkins health center Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) has been awarded the show to explore the methane ocean on Titan. Next year APL will be deputization a project plan to NASA, which will be one of three submittals. If chosen, launch would be in 2016, with arrival at Titan in 2023. The 'Titan Mare Explorer' or TiME would be the first expedition of an space inhabitant ocean with the craft landing and floating on the ocean. The mission would be led by chief investigator Ellen Stofan of Proxemy ground Inc. in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Lockheed Martin in Denver would build the TiME capsule, with scientific instruments in the case that by APL, Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and Malin Space Science Systems in San Diego. This is part of NASA's find Program and would be the next mission, funded and supported by NASA."

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