Nasa’s to-do list for 2018: Robots in Mars, asteroid visits, touching the sun and more0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 3, 2018
2018 is slated to be an exciting year for Nasa and its fans.
2018 is slated to be an exciting year for Nasa and its fans.
At a time when China is working on an ambitious lunar program, President Donald Trump vowed on Monday that the United States will remain the leader in space exploration as he began a process to return Americans to the moon.
Landing on Mars is difficult and not always successful.
Vice President Mike Pence called for returning U.S. astronauts to the Moon and eventual missions to Mars during the first meeting of the National Space Council, held on October 5 at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, outside Washington.
*brb, packing bags*
Governments and private firms are collaborating on projects to send humans to new frontiers, with NASA planning missions to the space between the earth and moon to prepare for trips to Mars.
The industrial manufacturing giant Siemens is planning for the reality of supplying and maintaining energy for a civilization on the Red Planet.
One potential landing site appears to have ridges that hint at past hydrothermal activity
Astrobiologists ponder sending gene sequencers, weather stations, drilling rigs and more to the Red Planet
Though the undertaking will no doubt include many challenges, NASA is finally ready to make humanity’s dream of sending people to Mars a reality. To that end, the agency has shared its five-part plan for reaching the Red Planet.