December 2014
India joins the major league with the Mars Orbiter Mission
... to the cost of the film ‘Gravity’, which cost $100 million, and the price of NASA’s most recent mission to Mars, MAVEN, of $671 million. What intrigued the international scientific communities, especially the space agencies, was how...
November 2016
Moon or Mars - NASA’s next logical step?
...set of problems that must be solved for a successful crewed mission to Mars and back. Chalk and cheese A journey to the Moon ...Earth-reliant and dependent on re-supply flights. For a Mars mission of two years or more, astronauts will have to be ...
January 2017
Blueprint for NASA’s journey to Mars
... the Habitat to be retrieved via an SEP tug and reused in the future, either in cis-lunar space or on a subsequent mission to Mars. Planning ahead for sufficient residual propellant provides some radiation shielding for the return journey, allows...
12 August 2015
The 10th Anniversary of NASA’s Mars Orbiter and the path to a manned Mars mission
...“ambassador,” galvanising both the public and the space community in the effort to launch an eventual manned mission to Mars. It’s going to be a long and risky journey. But spacecraft like the MRO have shown us that a) It is possible and b) It is ...
18 September 2017
'Mars crew' emerge from isolation after 8 months study on Hawaii
... University of Hawaii facility and the research will prove invaluable if and when the time for an actual mission to Mars gets the go ahead. "There are certainly human factors to be figured out, that's part of what HI-SEAS is for...
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...
