15 September 2021
SpaceX ready to launch private, all-civilian crew into Earth orbit
...SEAS) Habitat as well as the NASA-funded four-month Mars mission at HI-SEAS. She will be only the fourth African ...four crew will represent the four values promoted by the mission: leadership; hope; generosity; and prosperity, whilst also showing...
02 July 2019
Orion spacecraft's launch abort test completed successfully
...emergency during launch. The test is another milestone in the agency’s preparation for Artemis missions to the Moon that will lead to astronaut missions to Mars. During the approximately three-minute test, called Ascent Abort-2, a test version of the...
January 2020
Apollo girl - camaraderie and discrimination in the Apollo era
... was at fault for a non-nominal launch trajectory display for the Mariner Mars mission in the spring of 1971. Nominal trajectories were displayed during the mission in order to track progress. Very soon after launch, it was clear that...
January 2021
Taking out the trash in space
... point to the lunar surface each year, or potentially providing course corrections (depending on spacecraft size) for a Mars mission. The team has investigated many varying technologies for solid-togas conversion for space applications, including...
09 April 2019
US space chiefs justify ambitious exploration plans
...want, we can get to the surface of the moon.” He envisions reorganising the agency to include a new Moon to Mars Mission Directorate. The Trump administration already submitted its fiscal year 2020 budget request to Congress. Bridenstine acknowledged...
15 February 2017
ROOM joins two European universities in a project promoting space awareness
...-organisms for potentially creating life in space; space tourism; the psychological and technological aspects of Moon and Mars missions. The five articles were selected based on the top articles chosen by students in each university out of two...
