12 November 2020
ESA and NASA to partner on Mars sample return mission
... been praised by an Independent Review Board set up to review the multi-year Mars missions. The Mars Sample Return campaign foresees NASA and ESA launching multiple missions to the Red Planet to collect samples, launch them into space and...
June 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...
May 2021
NASA’s women of inspiration
...-up test. NASA/JPL-Caltech Alongside Dr Mohan, many other women were in the spotlight for this ambitious Mars mission. Diana Trujillo, an immigrant who moved to the US from Colombia with only $300 and whose story was...
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...
04 August 2016
Experts to Discuss Mars Sample Return at IAC 2016
... 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...
