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...
23 April 2018
The International Atlas of Mars Exploration, Vols 1 & 2
..., 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...
July 2014
Is there a space race or are India and China just coming of age?
... 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...
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...
