... 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...
... 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...
... on this Committee have been surmising during past hearings — namely, that there is no actual Plan for a human Mars mission.” If the underlying driving force of getting to the Moon by 2024 is achievable then perhaps not all is lost. But...
... 09:30 am, will discuss the possibility of human and robotic collaboration on the Mars Sample Return mission. In light of NASA's planned Journey to Mars mission and crewed missions to the Moon, new opportunities may arise that would facilitate sample...
..., with sections on Phobos and Deimos and Mars mission data, but the great majority of the book comprises a “chronological sequence of missions and events”. Although this is a history of Mars exploration, the most important differentiating factor (its...
... and the European Space Agency. Success is far from assured, however; historically more than half of all Mars missions have failed. Smaller space players, such as Indonesia, Taiwan and Singapore, are ursuing satellite communications technology...