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Integrating New Concepts for Entry, Descent and Landing for Future Human Missions to Mars

July 3, 2012

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Andy Tomaswick, an electrical engineer who follows space science and technology. One of the most technically difficult tasks of any future manned missions to Mars is to get the astronauts safely on the [...]

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Upcoming First Human Mission to Chinese Space Station May Include Female Taikonaut

June 11, 2012

The Chinese government has announced they will launch three taikonauts sometime in mid-June 2012, on the first manned mission to dock with their orbiting experimental module, and confirmed again that the crew might include China’s first female space traveler. A rocket carrying the Shenzhou 9 spacecraft was moved to a launch pad in China’s desert [...]

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Humans on Mars by 2023?

June 6, 2012

Reality TV goes to Mars! Dutch entrepreneur Bas Lansdorp is leading a group visionaries and businesspeople who want to send four humans to Mars by 2023, and they say they can achieve their goal at an estimated cost of $6 billion USD. How can they do it? By building it into a global media spectacle. [...]

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Infographic: How the New Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle Stacks Up

May 25, 2011

Thanks to Space.com and the Tech Media Network for sharing this great graphic showing NASA’s “new” MPCV and how it compares with other human spaceflight vehicles. Source SPACE.com: Remove this ad

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Lockheed Accelerates Orion to Achieve 2013 launch and potential 2016 Manned Lunar Flyby

April 26, 2011

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER – Despite utilizing just half the work force originally planned and cutting back further on the original test program, Lockheed Martin is now accelerating the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) launch schedule and aiming to achieve an Earth orbital flight by 2013 and a human crewed flight as early as 2016. The [...]

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