Journey to Mars Update on This Week @NASA – September 30, 2016

Jour­ney to Mars Update on This Week @NASA – Sep­tem­ber 30, 2016



NASA,NASA Admin­is­tra­tor Char­lie Bolden,International Astro­nau­ti­cal Congress,Guadalajara,Mexico,Journey to Mars,International Space Station,Hubble,Rosetta,Armstrong



NASA Admin­is­tra­tor Char­lie Bold­en joined oth­er lead­ers of the world’s space agen­cies to dis­cuss the lat­est tech­no­log­i­cal break­throughs and devel­op­ments in space explo­ration at the 67th Inter­na­tion­al Astro­nau­ti­cal Con­gress, Sept. 26–30th in Guadala­jara, Mexico.
At the event, NASA dis­cussed new ele­ments to its mul­ti-phase Jour­ney to Mars to extend the human foot­print all the way to the Red Plan­et. NASA will con­tin­ue oper­a­tions aboard the Inter­na­tion­al Space Sta­tion through 2024. Work cur­rent­ly under­way aboard the sta­tion to encour­age com­mer­cial devel­op­ment of low-Earth orbit, devel­op deep space sys­tems, life sup­port and human health is part of the Earth Reliant phase of the Jour­ney to Mars. In the 2020s, dur­ing the Prov­ing Ground phase when NASA steps out far­ther, the agency now plans to send an astro­naut crew on a year­long mis­sion to a deep space des­ti­na­tion near the moon. They will con­duct activ­i­ties to ver­i­fy habi­ta­tion and test our readi­ness for Mars. A round-trip robot­ic Mars sam­ple return mis­sion is being tar­get­ed for the 2020s, as part of the Earth Inde­pen­dent phase before final­ly send­ing humans on a mis­sion to orbit Mars in the ear­ly 2030s. Also, Zur­buchen Named Head of NASA Sci­ence, Hub­ble Spots Pos­si­ble Water Plumes on Europa, Rosetta’s Mis­sion Ends, and Arm­strong Cel­e­brates 70 Years of Flight Research!



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