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 July 2016
NASA unveils new Mars 2020 rover
... will be equipped with a suite of cameras and a microphone. Microphones have been used on previous missions to Mars, but have never actually been used on the surface of the Red Planet. "This will be a great opportunity ...
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...
08 February 2021
UAE Hope probe poised to enter Mars' orbit tomorrow
... always includes an element of risk and we are keenly aware that 50 percent of all missions to Mars have failed,” Omran Sharaf, Project Director of the Emirates Mars Mission, said. If all goes according to plan, then the UAE will become the...
