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...
May 2017
Recipe for success on flights to Mars
... into some of the issues that will be faced by future crews journeying to Mars. HI-SEAS (Hawai’i Space Exploration Analog & Simulation) is a series of simulated Mars missions funded by NASA and run by Dr Kim Binsted of the University of Hawaii. The...
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...
19 April 2019
Mission to Mars by 2033 not viable says independent report
... 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...
