The Mars Scene: News About Mars Mission

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Last week, NASA held multiple panels at Kennedy Space Center on the eve of The Martian’s premiere to help boost public awareness of the actual human mission to Mars currently in development. The agency rolled out its top scientists and astronauts, along NASA wants to put people on Mars by the 2030s. Last week, they detailed how that might become a reality. In a report titled "NASA's Journey to Mars: Pioneering Next Steps in Space Exploration," the agency laid out a three-part plan on how it might reach Mars, despite its inhospitable climate and heavily irradiated surface that would kill humans in a matter of minutes, has been a source of unending fascination for scientists and science fiction writers alike. In recent years, this fascination has ‘The Martian’ raises serious questions over the feasibility of a manned mission to Mars Close on the heels of the release of the movie The Martian – and the discovery that the red planet contains liquid water – Nasa has unveiled a bold plan for NASA plans to send two CubeSats to Mars early next year to observe and record the entry, descent, and landing of its InSight lander in September 2016 on a mission to study the Red Planet’s interior. Named Mars Cube One or MarCo, the tiny satellites will Last week NASA released Journey to Mars, an inspirational 36-page report that outlines Doug Cooke, former associate administrator of NASA's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate, also said during the hearing that NASA's budget problems are largely .

One such project is the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM), in which a robotic probe — powered by advanced solar-electric propulsion, which NASA regards as a key technology for hauling big payloads to Mars — will pluck a boulder off a near-Earth asteroid but the space agency has now revealed in greater detail how it plans to make such a mission reality. In a document titled "NASA's Journey to Mars: Pioneering Next Steps in Space Exploration," the expedition is broken down into three separate phases one or two of which will have the honor of taking part in Discovery Mission Thirteen. Hoping to focus the next round of exploration efforts to places other than Mars, the five semifinalists (which were announced this past September) include proposed Although NASA knows the journey to Mars will not be an easy feat, it says the mission itself is realistic. The first phase in NASA's plan for the mission to Mars is the Earth Reliant exploration. The agency currently uses the International Space Station to .