October 2024
Cinema and extraterrestrial archaeology
... the face: holographic representation of the take-off and flight of Martian spaceships after the impact event in Mission to Mars. The powerplant built by the lost alien civilisation inside Pyramid Mountain, from Total Recall. Rediscovered in the...
April 2026
Spaceflight and the radiation problem
... the crew, but the astronauts survived unscathed, in part because it was all over in a matter of days. Mars will be different, as a mission to Mars is likely to take around six months and the crew would have to wait for a suitable launch...
09 March 2016
Components of ExoMars 2016 come together in preparation of launch next week
... sequence. It is hoped that Schiaparelli will not succumb to the same fate of many previous ill-fated missions to Mars by performing a controlled landing on the planet’s surface. Schiaparelli is thus designed to be slowed down by aerobraking and the...
29 April 2016
SpaceX Announces Plans for Mars Mission.
SpaceX has announced its plans to launch a Dragon 2 spacecraft, nicknamed “Red Dragon”, to Mars on a Falcon Heavy launch vehicle as soon as there's a new launch window for missions to Mars (spring of 2018). SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted that “Dragon ...
08 September 2021
Success! Perseverance collects its first Mars rock sample
...was imaged by the rover's instruments and later confirmed by mission controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern ... director of JPL. A key objective for Perseverance’s mission on Mars is to be the first of its type to cache Martian ...
December 2014
Asteroid Redirect Mission: preparing for Mars in deep space
...to return home in a few hours or days. A human mission to Mars and back, however, could take around 500 days and would ... systems and capabilities toward the challenging goal of a crewed mission to Mars. In an early use of NASA’s next-generation human ...
