Home » Topics » mission to mars

India plans $70 million mission to Mars in 2013

India said on Thursday it will send a $70 million space mission to Mars this year to study the red planet’s atmosphere. The unmanned Mars orbiter mission, to be launched in October by the Indian Space Research Organisation, will undertake a 300-day journey to the planet to collect data about…

Space travel can accelerate Alzheimer’s: U.S. study

Long journeys into deep space, including a mission to Mars, could expose astronauts to levels of cosmic radiation harmful to the brain and accelerate Alzheimer’s disease, said US research Monday. The NASA-funded study involved bombarding mice with varied radiation doses, including levels comparable to what voyagers would experience during a…

India plans unmanned spacecraft to Mars in 2013

India plans 2013 mission to Mars (+video) (via The Christian Science Monitor) India plans to send an unmanned orbiter to Mars in November 2013 to study the climate and the geology of the Red Planet. According to AFP, India’s Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, has given his authorization and the final…