28 September 2016
Yorkshire mines to help shed light on life on Mars
... the mine will allow us to investigate them in much greater detail helping us to plan the targets for future missions to Mars,” continued Edwards. If the instrument is a success, then it is not only the ExoMars programme that will benefit...
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...
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...
September 2016
Moon or Mars - how logical is NASA’s next step?
...in space, citing it as a first step towards the colonisation of Mars. Similarly, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin was the first to succeed ...to begin to finance larger and more expansive trade missions across the world, eventually culminating in an empire that...
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...
