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...
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...
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...
October 2023
The multidisciplinary world of space habitation design
... Society’s goal is to create support for human Mars missions, inspiring and enabling new business opportunities and start-...profit organisation, aim at creating support for human Mars missions, inspiring and enabling new business opportunities and ...
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...
