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...
March 2017
Growing plastic-producing bacteria in space
... producing spores for an extended period of time when they were not needed. More than just biology On a mission to Mars, astronauts will experience reduced gravity and their spacecraft drastic external temperature fluctuations, low pressure and...
January 2018
Shielding the human genome
...turned their attention to a second key biological problem that needed to be managed for humanity to be successful in its missions to Mars and beyond: how to mitigate the threat from microbial species that demonstrate increased pathogenicity and other...
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...
27 December 2019
Mars 2020 aeroshell’s impressive pedigree
... entry orientation, as well as the back shell, or upper section. Like everyone else working on NASA’s next robotic mission to Mars, and anxiously awaiting some good news at JPL, Tice won’t know whether the landing succeeded for...
