December 2014
Asteroid Redirect Mission: preparing for Mars in deep space
.... NASA envisions SEP as usable for moving large elements through deep space for future missions, eventually transporting cargo to support a human Mars mission. The commercial spacecraft industry is also interested in advanced SEP for use in their...
January 2017
Mini space station for mice to study effects of reproduction in reduced gravity
...synergistic human exploration systems requiring increased autonomy such as medical care and vehicle health management to achieve Mars missions. Astronaut Nicole Stott, Expedition 20/21 flight engineer, working with the Mice Drawer System (MDS) in the...
August 2020
Scorpion – a study of the possible
... if another Scorpion (or a specialist boost stage) contributes to the initial heliocentric injection, then Mars and Venus orbits could be within reach. The Mars mission would have sufficient payload for specialised landing systems that would enable...
01 January 2020
What has been in 2019 and what is to come in 2020!
..., the programme has been regularly blighted with reports of delays after delays. So too has its intended Mars mission. On a more positive note, both SpaceX and Boeing got their respective NASA financed Commercial Crew Program...
20 January 2021
"Mole" on NASA's InSight mission to dig no more
... successful: We’ve learned a lot that will benefit future missions to Mars and elsewhere, and we thank our German partners from ...The mole’s design was based on soil seen by previous Mars missions – soil that proved very different from what the mole ...
June 2015
The new space ethics: COSPAR, Planetary Protection and beyond
....com/science/headquarters/ 2013/sep/09/neuroscience-psychology 7: For further details see BBC TV (2013), ‘Man on Mars: Mission to the Red Planet’ http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03vpc74 8: See Nicholas Welly (2010) ‘Enlightened State Interest...
