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This Way to Mars: How Technologies Borrowed from Robotic Missions Could Deliver Astronauts to Deep Space

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — From Launch Complex 17 here at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, many of NASA's robotic planetary missions blasted off.

In a paper published in EPJ Plus, Marco Tantardini and Enrico Flamini from the Italian Space Agency (ASI) make the case for taking part in the robotic phase of the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM).

NASA is currently developing concepts for the redirect mission that will employ a robotic spacecraft, driven by an advanced solar electric propulsion system, to capture a small near - Earth asteroid or remove a boulder from the surface of a larger asteroid.

Two Congressmen expressed concern that the 2013 budget proposal takes away from NASA's robotic missions to Mars

He is the project scientist on a proposed robotic mission called Resource Prospector, which could launch in 2018 to try to extract water from lunar rocks.

The crew of the final Apollo mission lifted off from the moon's Sea of Serenity on 14 December 1972, and the last robotic Soviet spacecraft to make it to the surface was in 1976.

Orbital Sciences Cygnus commercial cargo craft completed a month - long delivery mission to the International Space Station Friday when it was released from the grips of the Canadarm2 robotic arm at 6:40 a.m. EDT.

ARM will demonstrate advanced, high - power, high - throughput solar electric propulsion; advanced autonomous high - speed proximity operations at a low - gravity planetary body; controlled touchdown and liftoff with a multi-ton mass from a low - gravity planetary body, astronaut spacewalk activities for sample selection, extraction, containment and return; and mission operations of integrated robotic and crewed vehicle stack — all key components of future in - space operations for human missions to Mars.

After collecting a multi-ton boulder from the asteroid, the robotic spacecraft will slowly redirect the boulder to an orbit around the moon, using the moon's gravity for an assist, where NASA plans to conduct a series of proving ground missions in the 2020s.

A series of robotic missions, from Viking in the 1970s to the Spirit rover still roaming Mars today, have observed ancient riverbeds and polar ice caps storing enough water to submerge the entire planet in an ocean 40 feet deep.

If the shell is thin, it could mean the moon's ocean receives sunlight and radiation from cracks in the surface, boosting the energy available for life and the chances that future missions could be sent to explore the ocean, potentially with a robotic submarine.

An example of a long - duration robotic asteroid sample return mission is the Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security — Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS - REx) mission managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, which will investigate and return a sample from a NEA named Bennu.

(The Japanese robotic asteroid mission Hayabusa was able to recover from several mishaps because of its ion drive.)

To encourage future interest and mass participation in future missions, NASA could incorporate Web - based interactivity into robotic landers from the start.

The letter from the Coalition for Space Exploration thanks the committee for its support of human and robotic exploration programs (specifically mentioning the James Webb Space Telescope as an «exploration science mission»), but «we remain concerned that by flat funding SLS, Orion and other Exploration program levels... the bill would unintentionally constrain progress toward accelerating program content from Exploration Mission - 2 [EM - 2] to be included in Exploration Mission - 1 [EM - 1] imission»), but «we remain concerned that by flat funding SLS, Orion and other Exploration program levels... the bill would unintentionally constrain progress toward accelerating program content from Exploration Mission - 2 [EM - 2] to be included in Exploration Mission - 1 [EM - 1] iMission - 2 [EM - 2] to be included in Exploration Mission - 1 [EM - 1] iMission - 1 [EM - 1] in 2018.

«Robotic sample return missions can return higher science value samples by selecting from a larger population of asteroids, and can be accomplished at significantly less cost... Support of ARRM with planetary science resources is not appropriate.»

«The gateway could move to support robotic or partner missions to the surface of the moon, or to a high lunar orbit to support missions departing from the gateway to other destinations in the solar system,» Gerstenmaier added.

During its mission, the robotic spacecraft detected flashes of infrared light coming from the planet's surface.

From groundbreaking technology like LightSail ®, to policy that shapes historic missions, the global group explores space together through four core enterprises: Human Space Exploration, Robotic Exploration, Planetary Defense and the Search for Life.

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The surface of Mars today — as seen from the myriad of robotic space missions sent to explore our next - door neighbor — appears cold and desert - like, and its whisper - thin atmosphere doesn't shield the planet from a bombardment of radiation from the Sun.

Johansson is mesmerizing as the extraterrestrial heroine: robotic and predatory at first, then increasingly curious, as she slowly — and mostly silently — deviates from her mission.

The wraps are off General Motors» top - secret Saturn Corp. plant.Five years in the making, the $ 1.9 billion facility lives up to industry expectations.GM has blended the most advanced technology from its far - flung computer, aerospace, robotics and automotive divisions to create a huge new car factory with a huge mission: producing affordable small cars that can compete with the Japanese.The Saturn car makes its public debut next month.

For instance Metal Man may give you a mission to retrieve a vital robotic part from a factory.