December 2014
India joins the major league with the Mars Orbiter Mission
.... “Such is the high level of collaboration between India and the US in the space sector,’’ Arunan said. The Mars mission has given a boost to India’s scientific sector and inspired youngsters to take science, technology, engineering and mathematics...
December 2014
Ready for Mars? From Mars-500 to zero-gravity medical issues
... crew constituency studies. Six men from a wide international grouping were isolated for 520 days in a simulated Mars mission in 2010–11. All appeared healthy and content at the end of the period with no conflict situations reported, although...
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...
January 2018
Shielding the human genome
... amount of radiation a person would encounter on Earth. This is the equation NASA grapples with as it plans for a Mars mission - and it is one that has never balanced in NASA’s favour. The pharmaceutical team, comprising organic chemists, biologists...
13 March 2019
'Marscopter' to accompany rover on Mars 2020 mission
... and there are some places that they simply can’t go. What would be really handy on the next Mars mission is a small helicopter that could whizz over the surface, taking pictures as it went. We're in luck then, as NASA has...
