Steve Featherstone is filing Dispatches from Mars (Slide Show and ra).
The Mars Society has a Desert Research Station in Utah that is supposed to simulate an actual Mars mission.
Meanwhile, Back on Mars, the Opportunity rover is surveying the rim of Endurance crater, while also walking a line in its delicate power management. As temperatures plunge during the martian winter, the scientific team faces one of their anticipated tradeoffs: power versus mobility and science return.
A joint ESA/UK inquiry was set up to investigate the ill-fated the Beagle 2 mission.
Congress held hearings on ‘Life in the Universe’ a few years ago. Get ready for alien contact via Project Phoenix and the Allen Array.
NASA’s Genesis spacecraft collected tiny pieces of the solar wind and will return them to Earth. The comet samples will be recovered at the Utah Test and Training Range in January 2006.
The Mars Sample Return Missions may began in 2011. The actual quarantine facility may resemble “The Andromeda Strain” — politics and all. It will take 7 years to build. Talk to the Committee for University-based Space Research for more info.
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