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The Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (JSC) is NASA 's center for human spaceflight in Houston, Texas (originally named the Manned Spacecraft Center), where human spaceflight training, research, and flight control are conducted. It was renamed in honor of the late US president and Texas native, Lyndon B. Johnson, by an act of the United States ...
The Deep Space Transport (DST), also called Mars Transit Vehicle, [152] is a crewed interplanetary spacecraft concept by NASA to support science exploration missions to Mars of up to 1,000 days. [153][154][155] It would be composed of two elements - an Orion capsule and a propelled habitation module. [156]
Human mission to Mars. The idea of sending humans to Mars has been the subject of aerospace engineering and scientific studies since the late 1940s as part of the broader exploration of Mars. [1] Long-term proposals have included sending settlers and terraforming the planet. Currently, only robotic landers and rovers have been on Mars.
SpaceX's Polaris Dawn crew has returned to Earth. Elon Musk's dreams of building a city on Mars got a major boost from the Polaris Dawn mission.. They tested spacesuits, radiation exposure, and ...
SpaceX Mars colonization program. Elon Musk at the 2006 Mars Society conference. Before founding SpaceX in 2001, Musk had expressed interest in Mars missions and briefly joined the Mars Society's board of directors. SpaceX Mars colonization program (colloquially also referred to as Occupy Mars) [1] is a planned objective of the company SpaceX ...
On Saturday, February 1, 2003, Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it reentered the atmosphere over Texas and Louisiana, killing all seven astronauts on board. It was the second Space Shuttle mission to end in disaster, after the loss of Challenger and crew in 1986. The mission, designated STS-107, was the twenty-eighth flight for the ...
First Commercial Mission to Mars Relativity Space, Impulse Space: 2026 Lander [81] SpaceX Uncrewed Landing SpaceX: 2026 Uncrewed lander [82] Tianwen-3 Mars sample-return mission CNSA China: 2028 [83] Two spacecrafts: one consists of orbiter and return module, the other lander, ascent module, a mobile sampling robot and/or helicopter.
The Johnson Space Center is the home of Mission Control and astronaut training. [3] The center opened in 1992 [4] replacing the former Visitor Center in Johnson Space Center Building 2. The museum is 250,000 square feet (23,000 m 2) and displays over 400 space artifacts, including the Mercury 9, Gemini 5, and Apollo 17 space capsules.