NASA is poised to begin reviewing wide-ranging options offered by participants in a Mars exploration planning conference here June 12-14, with the goal of reviving a follow-on mission or missions to the upcoming Mars Science Laboratory(MSL) program. With MSL on track for an Aug. 6 touchdown...
加拿大航天局（Canadian Space Agency，CSA）于11月签署了协议，将提供先进的机器人技术，包括下一代机械臂Canadarm3和用于有效载荷安装的机械臂接口。To prepare for future crew missions, the agency:为准备未来的载人探测任务，NASA完成了以下工作：于2020年1月举办了新一批宇航员毕业典礼，迎接11名新成员加入宇航员...
Even if it doesn’t show, NASA is engaged in perhaps the most ambitious program in its history. Called Artemis, the plan is not only to have people back on the Moon by the middle of the decade, but also use the Earth satellite as a staging area for future missions to Mars. Here’s...
An engine that will help propel NASA's Orion spacecraft toward its deep-space missions underwent a test today.
1. Mars 2020 13. Asteroid Redirect Robotic Mission (ARRM) Expected Launch Date:December 2021 Budget:$1.25 billion NASA wants to advance the new technologies and spaceflight experience required for missions related to Martian system in the 2030s. ARRM is the first robotic project to visit a huge...
sample tubes. About 30 of these sample tubes will be deposited at select locations for return on a potential future sample-retrieval mission. In laboratories on Earth, specimens from Mars could be analyzed for evidence of past life on Mars and possible health hazards for future human missions. ...
NASA doesn't have enough of it to continue taking a leading role in low-Earth orbit operations and still fund missions to the Moon and Mars. In 2015, NASA spent about $3 billion on ISS operations, which amounts to 20% of its entire budget. That's expected to rise to $4 billion by...
“We are returning to the moon in a way we never have before, and the safety of our astronauts is Nasa’s top priority as we prepare for future Artemis missions,” said the Nasa administrator Bill Nelson.美国国家航空航天局的局长比尔·纳尔逊(Bill Nelson)说:“我们将以前所未有的方式重返月球...
launch pad in the Orion spacecraft, atop a rocket that’s getting ready to launch. You’ll travel farther into space than any other humans have been and help push the boundaries of technology in the proving ground of deep space lunar orbits, leading the way for future missions to Mars. ...
▲NASA火星商业服务研究(图源:ESA) 新闻来自SpaceNews: Jeff Foust,NASA awards studies for commercial Mars missions, https://spacenews.com/nasa-awards-studies-for-commercial-mars-missions/