April 2021
On Mars as it is on Earth - preparing for settlement
... one; but if we fail to meet it, the story of our race will be drawing to its close.” The HI-SEAS Valoria 1 Mars mission on Hawaii and (bottom): Engineering Officer Kevin Pratt (left) and Commander Michaela Musilova perform an emergency engineering...
29 March 2019
NASA's Mars helicopter completes flight tests
..., encase them in sealed tubes, and leave them on the planet's surface for potential return to Earth on a future Mars mission. The Mars 2020 project at JPL in Pasadena, California, manages rover development for the Science...
26 April 2021
Ingenuity makes its third flight on Mars
... demonstrating critical capabilities that will enable the addition of an aerial dimension to future Mars missions.” The Mastcam-Z imager aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover, which is parked at “Van Zyl Overlook” and serving as a communications base...
October 2015
Earth independence: new definitions of home on Mars missions and beyond
... them from harsh conditions. Power must be generated for the mission duration. They will learn to use the resources available on Mars from precursor missions like the Mars 2020 rover, which will carry an experiment to investigate the technology...
November 2016
Moon or Mars - NASA’s next logical step?
... the environment, and medical facilities. In contrast, the ISS is Earth-reliant and dependent on re-supply flights. For a Mars mission of two years or more, astronauts will have to be both self-sufficient and Earth-independent. In situ resource...
April 2018
Developing Mars
... slots a terraforming opportunity into the plans of space agencies and commercial aerospace firms ambitious for crewed Mars missions. It would endow them with valuable and timely resources. This leads to revenue streams, return on investment (ROI...
