19 August 2019
Maxar selected to build, fly first element of NASA’s Lunar Gateway
...will ultimately translate that experience toward human missions to Mars.” Maxar’s power and propulsion element design ...next man to the Moon by 2024 in preparation for a human mission to Mars. SAMPLR will be mounted on a yet-to-be-named lander and will...
19 October 2015
Scott Kelly, Mikhail Kornienko, long-duration spaceflight and the human body
... Institute’s website. Yet as humanity continues to yearn for more space exploration – particularly when it comes to a manned mission to Mars – experiments such as the one Kelly and Kornienko are participating in become more and more important. After...
06 January 2020
New evidence suggests that Venus has active volcanoes
... surface and provide concrete evidence of its activity.” Venus might not be the number one destination for missions like Mars is, but there a few projects lined up to learn more about the planet’s atmosphere and surface conditions...
02 April 2020
Thousands Apply to Join NASA’s Artemis Generation, #BeAnAstronaut
... interest to take part in America’s plans to explore the Moon and take humanity’s next giant leap – human missions to Mars. Applications were received from every US state, the District of Columbia, and four US territories. However, the process...
April 2019
On-board propulsion set to drive the smallsat revolution
... also have sufficient capability to perform interplanetary exploration, such as with NASA’s recent launch of the Mars Cube One (MarCO) flyby mission to Mars. And with the burgeoning interest in asteroid mining, a disruption in the mining sector may...
November 2021
The philosophy of space missions today
... send humans to the Moon and especially to Mars, should prompt space mission philosophers to take a greater interest in the bioethics of space missions. Human presence in space, especially on a mission to Mars, will not only involve a number of risks...
