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 ...
09 August 2021
NASA is seeking applicants for yearlong simulated Mars mission
... into the cosmos, the astronaut experience will change. In preparation for the real-life challenges of future missions to Mars, NASA will study how highly motivated individuals respond under the rigor of a long-duration, ground-based...
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 ...
November 2017
Radiation protection for space colonists and travellers
...already on board to protect the crew of long-distance missions to Mars. Supplies, equipment and launch and re-entry seats, ...Orion capsule. The vest is due to be tested on the Orion mission scheduled to orbit the Moon in late 2018. It will be attached ...
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...
19 March 2019
New data from InSight shows a contrasting Mars
... 50th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference held in Houston, Texas this week, scientists working on NASA’s InSight mission reveal Mars’s interior is not only proving to be somewhat quiet, so far, but that its surface is plagued by ‘dustless devils...
