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Mars500 European Crew Selected And Ready To GoParis, France (ESA) May 11, 2010 The simulated flight to Mars is almost ready to depart! Selection of the full crew is still under way, but the Europeans have now been chosen: Romain Charles and Diego Urbina. Two Europeans, three Russians and one Chinese will close the hatch of the Mars500 isolation modules in early June and start their record-breaking mission. The full crew will be announced later in May, but the European members have already been selected in order to allow them to visit family and friends before they are ... read more |
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Kennedy Space Center, Florida (AFP) April 15, 2010US President Barack Obama said Thursday he is aiming to send US astronauts into Mars orbit in the mid-2030s as he sought to quell protests over his earlier space policies. "By 2025 we expect new spacecraft designed for long journeys to allow us to begin the first ever crew missions beyond the moon into deep space," Obama told an audience at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. "So, we'll ... more  
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 16, 2010NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter heard no signal from the Phoenix Mars Lander when it listened from orbit while passing over Phoenix 60 times last week. Odyssey had also listened for a signal from Phoenix during periods in January and February. During the third campaign, April 5 through April 9, the sun stayed above the horizon continuously at the arctic site where Phoenix completed its mission ... more 
Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Apr 16, 2010Astronauts will soar spaceward in commercial spacecraft while NASA develops technology so humans can venture to Mars and out into the solar system, President Barack Obama told a space conference Thursday at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Laying out his plans, President Obama committed NASA to a series of development milestones he said would lead to new spacecraft for astronauts to ... more |
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Helicopter Helps Test Radar For 2012 Mars LandingPasadena CA (JPL) Apr 14, 2010 This spring, engineers are testing a radar system that will serve during the next landing on Mars. Recent tests included some near Lancaster, Calif., against a backdrop of blooming California poppy fields. In those tests, a helicopter carried an engineering test model of the landing radar for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory on prescribed descent paths. The descents at different angles and from different heights simulated paths associated with specific candidate sites for the mission. The Mars ... read more |
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