01 January 2020
What has been in 2019 and what is to come in 2020!
..., the programme has been regularly blighted with reports of delays after delays. So too has its intended Mars mission. On a more positive note, both SpaceX and Boeing got their respective NASA financed Commercial Crew Program...
20 January 2021
"Mole" on NASA's InSight mission to dig no more
... successful: We’ve learned a lot that will benefit future missions to Mars and elsewhere, and we thank our German partners from ...The mole’s design was based on soil seen by previous Mars missions – soil that proved very different from what the mole ...
June 2015
The new space ethics: COSPAR, Planetary Protection and beyond
....com/science/headquarters/ 2013/sep/09/neuroscience-psychology 7: For further details see BBC TV (2013), ‘Man on Mars: Mission to the Red Planet’ http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03vpc74 8: See Nicholas Welly (2010) ‘Enlightened State Interest...
August 2016
International cooperation drives Germany’s space ambitions
... which Germany is contributing the eROSITA instrument. In addition, Germany has provided instruments for nearly every NASA Mars mission. An example of a very successful international project in which DLR participated is the European Rosetta...
October 2017
Third quarter phenomenon - the psychology of time in space
... together in their ‘spacecraft’ for this simulated Mars mission. In the context of mobile land-based expeditions...spent 520 days together in their ‘spacecraft’ for this simulated Mars mission. To some extent, findings from space are as inconclusive ...
February 2022
Nutritional issues on interplanetary spaceflights
... cooking. To perform work on the surface of the Moon (and eventually on Mars), special food mixtures for food intake inside a spacesuit must also be in place. Mars missions will require developing products with a shelf-life of 3-5 years and allow...
