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!! Next Missions * 2040 — Sun Laiyan, administrator of the China National Space Administration, said on July 20, 2006 that China would start deep space exploration focusing on Mars over the next five years, during the Eleventh Five-Year Plan (2006–2010) Program period. The first uncrewed Mars exploration program could take place between 2014–2033, followed by a crewed phase in 2040-2060 in which crew members would land on Mars and return home. The Mars 500 study of 2011 prepared for this manned mission. * 2037 — Manned exploration by the United States was identified as a long-term goal in the Vision for Space Exploration announced in 2004 by then US President George W. Bush. The planned Orion spacecraft would be used to send a human expedition to Earth's moon by 2020 as a stepping stone to a Mars expedition. On September 28, 2007, NASA administrator Michael D. Griffin stated that NASA aims to put a person on Mars by 2037. * mid-2030s — In a major space policy speech at Kennedy Space Center on April 15, 2010, U.S. President Barack Obama predicted a manned Mars mission to orbit the planet by the mid-2030s, followed by a landing: "By the mid-2030s, I believe we can send humans to orbit Mars and return them safely to Earth. And a landing on Mars will follow. And I expect to be around to see it." The United States Congress has mostly approved a new direction for NASA that includes canceling Bush's planned return to the Moon by 2020 and instead proposes asteroid exploration in 2025 and orbiting Mars in the 2030s. * 2030 — The ESA has plans to land humans on Mars between 2030 and 2035. This will be preceded by successively larger probes, starting with the launch of the ExoMars probe and a planned joint NASA–ESA Mars sample return mission. * 2023 — In 2012, a new proposal for a one-way human settlement mission to Mars was put forward by the Mars One a private spaceflight project led by Dutch entrepreneur, Bas Lansdorp, to establish a permanent human colony on Mars. Mars One is a Dutch not-for-profit foundation, a Stichting. The plan is to send a communication satellite and path finder lander to the planet by 2016 and, after several stages, land four humans on Mars for permanent settlement in 2023. * 2021 — The Mars Piloted Orbital Station (or MARPOST) is a Russian proposed manned orbital mission to Mars, using a nuclear reactor to run an electric rocket engine. Proposed in October 2000 by Yuri Karash from the Russian Academy of Cosmonautics as the next step for Russia in space along with the Russian participation in the International Space Station, a 30-volume draft project for MARPOST has been confirmed as of 2005. Design for the ship proposed to be ready in 2012, and the ship itself in 2021. * 2020 — The Mars 2020 rover mission by NASA would be launched in 2020, and it would be based on the Mars Science Laboratory architecture. Both the payload, and the instruments on board will be openly competed for selection. * 2018 — In 2013, the Inspiration Mars Foundation founded by Dennis Tito plans a manned mission to flyby Mars in 2018. * 2018 — Red Dragon is a proposed concept for a low-cost Mars lander mission that would use a SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch vehicle, and a modified Dragon capsule to enter the Martian atmosphere. The concept will be proposed for funding in 2012/2013 as a NASA Discovery mission, for launch in 2018. The primary objective would be the search for evidence of life on Mars (biosignatures), past or present; a substantially unmodified version of the crewed Dragon capsule could be used for payload transport to Mars, and would be a precursor to the ambitious long-term plans of a manned mission to Mars. * 2018 — ESA and the Russian Federal Space Agency plan to send the ExoMars rover in 2018 to search for past or present microscopic life on Mars. * 2016 — Trace Gas Orbiter / ExoMars : As part of the ExoMars program, ESA and the Russian Federal Space Agency plan to send the Trace Gas Orbiter and the Schiaparelli lander to Mars in 2016. * 2016 — The InSight mission (formerly called GEMS), would place a lander on Mars that would be designed to drill beneath the surface and investigate the planet's deep interior to better understand Mars' evolution as a rocky planet. * 2014 — MetNet (Finland) : MetNet is an atmospheric science mission to Mars, initiated and defined by the Finnish Meteorological Institute. The mission includes sending several tens of MetNet landers on the Martian surface. The objective is to establish a widespread surface observation network on Mars to investigate the planet's atmospheric structure, physics and meteorology. A precursory mission consisting of one lander is scheduled for launch in the launch window starting from 2014. * Nov 2014 — Rosetta will rendezvous with Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko where it will study the nucleus of the comet and its environment for nearly two years, and land a probe on its surface. The lander, Philae, will be delivered to the comet’s surface in November 2014. * ? — Mars Sample Return is a proposed mission to return samples from the surface of Mars to Earth. {br}{br}{br}{br} ---- !!!!References * {small}http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/ {/small} * {small}http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa-jpl/sets/72157616670931285/ {/small} * {small}http://pdsimg.jpl.nasa.gov/Atlas/Atlas.html {/small} * {small}http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/targetFamily/Mars {/small} * {small}Mars Exploration Timeline : http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/chronology_mars.html {/small} * {small}Mars Missions list : http://www.planetary.org/explore/space-topics/space-missions/missions-to-mars.html {/small} {br}{br}{br}{br} ---- !!!!Credits * {small}NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS Malin Space Science Systems {/small} {br}{br} ----
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