13 June 2016
NASA signs an agreement with United Arab Emirates
...future projects that contribute to exploring the Red Planet. Missions to our martian neighbour by NASA have recently come ...both parties and extend the reach of the UAE to Mars, as its current mission is limited to an unmanned probe expected to reach ...
11 June 2021
China unveils new Mars images, and prepares to launch first astronauts to space station
... in the coming days. At a ceremony in Beijing today, Zhang Rongqiao, chief designer of China's first Mars exploration mission unveiled four new images of Mars that include the landing site panorama, the martian landscape and a selfie of the rover...
20 January 2021
"Mole" on NASA's InSight mission to dig no more
... successful: We’ve learned a lot that will benefit future missions to Mars and elsewhere, and we thank our German partners from ...The mole’s design was based on soil seen by previous Mars missions – soil that proved very different from what the mole ...
October 2017
Third quarter phenomenon - the psychology of time in space
...reactions to confinement over periods of 14, 105 and 510 days, designed to replicate the conditions of a mission to Mars. Although findings from the Mars simulations are less conclusive with regards to changes in mood and the TQP (Basner et al., 2014...
September 2017
Plans for high-speed lunar rovers
... eventually bring humans to other planetary bodies. Besides serving as a proving ground for future human and robotic missions to Mars, the lunar vicinity is a key area for the development of an affordable and sustainable space economy that would...
April 2020
Protecting against the dangers of space radiation
...on Earth, and perhaps even higher during deep space missions to Mars. Returning from Mars we might even be faced with a factor of 1000... the exposure of the population on Earth. For future missions to Mars and the Moon, the risk to health will be much...
