July 2021
Collaboration and competition in lunar exploration
... the rationale for heading back to the Moon, and it is considered as a central piece in the development of future crewed Mars missions. Numerous initiatives - such as the NASA-led Artemis programme and the Russian-Chinese International Lunar Research...
11 February 2016
$19 Billion NASA Budget Proposed by White House
... the NASA budget. “This imbalanced proposal continues to tie our astronauts’ feet to the ground and makes a Mars mission all but impossible.” Radzanowski said that the budget supports a 2018 launch of the first SLS/Orion...
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...
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...
