. >> and another thing, ecliptic oh -- >> they are close. >> thank you. >> we were going to answer questions that came from the left but there is another one first. >> is the ever going to be a spacecraft that travels into space that can show dawn to refill? >> so that there there ever gonna be another spacecraft to refuel it. that's a good question. i guess i could answer that question by asking you a question. when you grow up would you be willing to make a spacecraft that will travel into space to refuel dawn? [applause]. and i hope the answer is yes. so nasa does not plan to do that, but we are waiting for smart, creative, energetic, enthusiastic people like you to come up with the great missions like that. but right now dawn, as i said is well over 1,000,000 times well over 1 million times further away than the space station. that's a pretty long way even for robotic that is a spacecraft without astronauts on board to go refuel another one, rather we are going to send a satellite, spacecraft out there instead of carrying fuel it could carry advanced instruments and sensors in morse soph

audience: and they're ecliptical planes? marc: they're close. audience: thank you. marc: sure. so there are people who are -- oh, okay. so we were going to answer questions that came from the web but there's another one first. audience: is there everybody going to be a spacecraft that travels into space that reach re fill dawn? marc: to refill dawn? the question was is there ever going to be another spacecraft to fly into space to refuel it. that's actually a good question. and i guess i could answer that question by asking you a question. when you grow up, would you be willing to make a spacecraft that will travel into space to refuel dawn? [laughter]. [applause] and i hope the answer is yet "yes." so nasa hasn't planned to do that, but we're waiting for smart, creative, energetic, enthusiastic people like you to come up with great missions like that. but right now, dawn, as i said, is well over a million times farther away than the space station. so that's a pretty long way, even for a robotic that is a spacecraft without astronauts on board to go refuel another one, rather i