Casey Dreier • December 18, 2015
Congress's plan to fund the U.S. government in 2016 includes a stellar $1.3 billion increase for NASA over last year, nearly $730 million above the President's request.
Van Kane • October 09, 2015
Van Kane rounds up the missions selected to move onto the next round in NASA's Discovery proposal process.
Casey Dreier and Emily Lakdawalla • September 30, 2015
NASA announced the first-round selections for its next Discovery mission today. A total of five planetary mission concepts -- three targeted at asteroids, two at Venus -- will move to the next stage of the competition.
Casey Dreier • September 29, 2015
Learn all about a sustainable, affordable path to get humans to the Red Planet—a path that goes through Mars orbit and Phobos.
Van Kane • September 17, 2015
Three recently proposed low-cost space missions all aim to answer the same question: Where did Earth's abundant water come from?
Van Kane • September 08, 2015
The IceBreaker mission, proposed to NASA's Discovery program for low-cost missions, would seek out life on the northern plains of Mars.
Casey Dreier • September 02, 2015
Casey interviews Dr. Craig Hardgrove about his lunar CubeSat, how it came together, and how NASA’s support for small missions are important for early career scientists like himself.
Van Kane • August 25, 2015
NASA's Outer Planet Analysis Group is currently meeting to hear the agency's current plans and to provide the feedback of the scientific community on those plans.
Van Kane • August 10, 2015
Van Kane presents one of the three missions from the latest round of NASA Discovery proposals with the goal of exploring Mars' moons.
Van Kane • July 27, 2015
Van Kane rounds up some of the latest NASA Discovery mission proposals aiming to explore our solar system's smallest bodies.
Casey Dreier • July 23, 2015
Mars 2020, NASA’s next and yet-to-be-named Mars rover, will be the first mission to collect and prepare samples of the martian surface for return to Earth. The rover's engineering team has proposed a new sampling caching strategy that differs from previous concepts in some interesting ways.
Van Kane • May 08, 2015
In the last two months, there has been significant news about the European-Russian 2018 mission and about NASA’s 2020 rover. NASA also has announced that it would like to send a new orbiter to the Red Planet in the early 2020s.
Casey Dreier • May 05, 2015
Our friends at Explore Mars are live-streaming their Humans to Mars Summit this week, happening in Washington, D.C.
Casey Dreier • April 17, 2015
A study team at JPL will present their humans to Mars program concept at the Humans to Mars Summit and publish it as a peer-reviewed article in the New Space Journal.
Jason Callahan • April 08, 2015
Last month teams of scientists from around the United States submitted proposals for the thirteenth mission in NASA’s Discovery program. Jason Callahan discusses this latest round of proposals.
Casey Dreier • April 02, 2015
A new advocacy initiative for the Society: let's get humans to Mars.
Van Kane • March 26, 2015
The road to lower costs outer planet missions has been paved by NASA’s first two New Frontiers missions, the $700M New Horizons mission to Pluto and the $1.1B Juno mission to Jupiter. But can the cost of a mission to the outer solar system be cut to $450M, the limit for a Discovery mission?
Van Kane • March 02, 2015
Van Kane introduces us to EnVision—a proposed European mission to help improve our understanding of Venus.
Casey Dreier • February 19, 2015
It's time to write to Congress in support of planetary exploration. Why? Because it works.
Van Kane • February 17, 2015
Van Kane rounds up some recent planetary mission concepts based on CubeSat technology.
Become a member of The Planetary Society and together we will create the future of space exploration.
Our Advocacy Program provides each Society member a voice in the process. Funding is crucial.