... is to engender an Earth-independent era for space exploration According to the data obtained from spacecraft, Mars has... region. Although Mars is the best candidate for human exploration, there are challenges for long-term surface operations. Its...
... and water - elements that would be essential for any explorers hoping to stay long term in a lunar settlement. These...to suffer setbacks when it was moved from the Human Exploration and Operations Directorate to the Science Mission Directorate (SMD)...
... no stranger to sending spacecraft to other-world bodies to examine them up close. As part of their Hayabusa2 mission, which is currently exploring the asteroid Ryugu, the agency’s Mobile Asteroid and Surface Scout (MASCOT) lander ‘hopped’ across the...
... is very different to what we are preparing for in terms of a future lunar base where it is foreseen to have hours of EVA exploration in the extreme and in difficult lunar environment. To date, no astronaut has ever performed more than three lunar...
..., hypomagnetic conditions may increase the impact of spaceflight factors and create additional risks to the health of space exploration crews in the future. Hypomagnetic fields are ‘near-zero magnetic fields’ and are known to impact biological...
.... NASA Marshall manages the IXPE mission for the agency’s Science Mission Directorate as a project of the NASA’s Explorers Program. IXPE is an international collaboration between NASA, the Italian Space Agency, along with partners and providers...