20 July 2020
Hope launch heralds ambitious future space plans
... already looking ahead to future spacefaring plans: a spaceport Virgin Galactic is eyeing, in-space agriculture with Nanoracks, a Mars sample-return mission no one’s ever heard of — if one UAE engineer gets her wish, that is — not to mention the 100...
30 July 2020
NASA's Perseverance rover successfully blasts off to Mars
...-sized rover, which weighs just under 1,043 kilograms, will collect rock and soil samples for a possible return to Earth by future Mars sample return missions from its landing location in Jezero Crater. Jezero Crater is thought to contain fan...
25 June 2021
China announces plans to build a base on Mars starting in 2033
... four percent of the current cost claim China. With a string of recent successes including the Chang'e-5 lunar sample return mission, the deployment of Zhurong to the martian surface, and the deployment of astronauts to its new space station...
July 2019
Lessons from our first race to the Moon
... only the robotic sample return system succeeded: Luna-16 (1970), Luna-20 (1972) and Luna 24 (1976) returned a total of ... the RAeS and a Senior Member of the AIAA. His third book Returning People to the Moon After Apollo - Will It Be Another 50 Years?...
October 2015
Taking AIM with ESA: proposing the first visit to a binary asteroid system
... maintenance of communications and rendezvous operations between separate spacecraft in interplanetary space will be essential for planned sample-return missions to Mars or other bodies. The mission has put out an announcement of opportunity for use...
26 April 2021
Microbes could potentially live beneath Mars' surface, new study suggests
... most promising rocks and soils with its drill and setting them aside so that a future sample-return mission can send them back to Earth for further analysis. But if Percy isn’t up to the task, recent ...
