but at some point we have to come together and make strategic decisions on some of these key things,” said Patrick Chai, deputy Mars architecture lead in the Strategy and Architecture Office for NASA’s Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate. Chai said the next round of architecture...
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“It feels great to be a part of making history and enabling the start of a Mars Sample Return campaign,” said Samuels. “What motivates us as engineers and scientists exploring another planet is the opportunity to learn more.” A key objective for Perseverance’s mission on Mars is ...
More:NASA's Mars Perseverance rover to the Red Planet (photos) A pioneering campaign NASA has conducted sample-return missions before. The Apollo astronauts hauled home 842 lbs. (382 kilograms) ofmoon rocksbetween 1969 and 1972, for example, and the agency'sStardust missionreturned flecks of c...
It’s funny how our perception of the robots we send into space changes with the experiences we have with them. Take NASA’s InSight lander, for example. I was thrilled to be able to see the mission launch on May 5 from my backyard. I was following the launch feed from my office in...
An overview of the planned NASA-ESA Mars sample-return campaign. (Image credit: K. Oldenburg/ESA) All of this will take time. The SRL surface mission is expected to last about eight months, with five months devoted to fetching, Muirhead said. Meanwhile, the MAV will be sitting there, wai...
Funding for post-production work is still needed, so the filmmakers are running an Indiegogo campaign through Wednesday, December 5. Currently the only way to get DVDs of Marslett's film Mars is as a perk at the $25 backer level or higher. Marslett says that if the campaign meets its ...
Ingenuity is serving as a scout for the car-sized rover, on an extended mission that NASA granted after the little chopper aced its original five-flight technology-demonstrating campaign in the spring of 2021. It might be time for Perseverance to return the favor and help its little robotic ...
NASA would like to see the Artemis III mission happen in 2026; the same year Musk wants to send a flotilla of Starships to Mars. Every Starship deep space mission, whether to the Moon or Mars, will require several fuel tanker Starships to top off its tanks before proceeding on. SpaceX ...
NASA's Office of Inspector General (OIG) said that its target of landing humans on the moon by 2024 as part of its Artemis program is "not feasible."