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The Space Exploration Initiative will contain many avenues for both space and terrestrial technology development and applications. In addition, the development of architecture independent technology will provide the first meaningful milestones as the overall program matures. A factor in SEI technology will be the utilization of various earth based analogs as functional testbeds for hardware, software and operations development and verification. The most interesting of these proposed analogs involves the Antarctic programs managed by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The driver for Antarctic Planetary Analog is an increased awareness of potential impacts from the continued science and exploration operations to this unique environment.