Participants at the 3rd Canadian Space Exploration Workshop (CSEW), being held in Montreal this weekend, were among the first to hear that Canada wants to go to Mars. In a pre-banquet speech on Saturday night, former astronaut Dr. Marc Garneau, now serving as Executive Vice-President for the Canadian Space Agency announced that the CSA would be expanding its space exploration efforts over the next several years, with Mars research being a major focus. The announcement came on the 40th anniversary of President Kennedy’s stirring and oft-quoted call for an American presence on the moon.
May 10th, 2001
Plants on a mission to Mars Environmental News Network
What could be a story out of an old science fiction magazine is instead a combination of three highly advanced modern sciences
January 26th, 2001
JPL Names Manager Of Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Project
James Graf of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., has been named manager of NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter mission. As project manager, Graf will oversee all aspects of the development and operations of the mission, proposed for launch in August 2005. The mission will conduct remote sensing of the planet’s surface to identify evidence of past or present water and will help identify safe and scientifically exciting landing sites for future robotic and perhaps someday human missions. The Reconnaissance Orbiter will also establish a telecommunications link for future missions.