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Mars Exploration Program (MEP) is a long-term effort to explore the planet Mars, funded and led by NASA.Formed in 1993, MEP has made use of orbital spacecraft, landers, and Mars rovers to explore the possibilities of life on Mars, as well as the planet's climate and natural resources. [1]
For nearly half a century, NASA has been talking an awfully good game about its much-heralded Mars Sample Return (MSR) project. As long ago as 1978, the space agency requested funding to develop a ...
Icebreaker Life is a Mars lander mission concept proposed to NASA's Discovery Program. [5] The mission involves a stationary lander that would be a near copy of the successful 2008 Phoenix and InSight spacecraft, but would carry an astrobiology scientific payload, including a drill to sample ice-cemented ground in the northern plains to conduct a search for biosignatures of current or past ...
Concept for NASA Design Reference Mission Architecture 5.0 (2009). Mars to Stay missions propose that astronauts sent to Mars for the first time should intend to remain there. . Unused emergency return vehicles would be recycled into settlement construction as soon as the habitability of Mars becomes evident to the initial pionee
MORE: Life on Mars: How volunteers in NASA's Mars simulator will live for a year PHOTO: Mars Sample Return mission concept with the Sample Retrieval Lander highlighted in color. (JPL-Caltech/NASA)
In the coming years, multiple robotic missions will launch as part of a collaborative Mars Sample Return mission between NASA and the European Space Agency to return these rock cores to Earth by 2030.
The Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA) is a series of missions conducted by NASA simulating missions on Mars. It consists of three missions, the first of which began on June 25, 2023. [1] The mission is contained in a hangar at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. [2]
NASA is seeking a cheaper, simpler approach to one of its top science priorities in the midst of a budget crunch - retrieving precious soil samples collected on Mars and flying them back to Earth ...