NAIL: Here with me now are the two of the primary architects of ST5 mission.
To my right is Christopher Stevens, manager of the ST5 parent organization -- NASA's New Millennium Program.
And seated next to him is Art Azarbarzin, ST5's project manager.
Thank you both for being with us today.
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS AND ART AZARBARZIN: Well, you're welcome, Tiffany. Glad to be here.
NAIL: Dr. Stevens, ST5 is a product of your New Millennium Program. Can you tell us more about the program and its goals?
STEVENS: Yes. The New Millennium Program was, was founded in 1995 because NASA recognized that the use of advanced technologies
in science missions posed a very high risk from a schedule and performance and cost standpoint.
And they were looking for a way in low-cost missions to validate technologies that could be used in future missions
and that would be broadly applicable to the objectives of the science mission directorate.
As a consequence, that was the way the program was formed.