'NASA'' Missions Become Bigger; China To Launch Their Own Mission To Mars, What We Need To Know!

By Carrie Winters - 29 Dec '16 21:21PM
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"NASA" has been giving the public the advances of technology. It has launched the Juno spacecraft to enter Jupiter after five years of journey to the solar system.

It is reported that NASA's Juno spacecraft entered Jupiter successfully last July 4th. The Juno spacecraft is set to cover all the activities inside Jupiter and will send images to Earth. This is going to take years and will have NASA busy for some time.

NASA also had the first asteroid sampling mission in Sept 8. This launch will make a better understanding of the early solar system. This spacecraft is designed to study the origins and will have to send reports to Earth by 2023.

A report indicates that NASA has a new mission to undertake in the coming years. Aside from the Juno spacecraft, NASA will  begin its ground testing for the Orion spacecraft. Once everything is complete, this will take humans further from the Earth.

This mission will have astronauts build a place on the moon to prepare for the venture to Mars. NASA's Orion spacecraft is to orbit the Earth twice. The crew on board the spaceship is expected to gather and evaluate certain data. If everything goes well, the mission may take 8 days to complete.

Meanwhile, a report indicates that China also wants to travel to the Mars soon. The China National Space Administration already has outlined a mission that will take five years to complete. This mission is to have their own crew travel to Mars.

China plans to launch the probes on the moon by 2018. They plan to have two and will have a launch to travel .to Mars by 2020. This may be the country's way to rival "NASA" in space travel. This is also a big mission from China.

It is indicated that this probe will explore on the side of the moon which is not facing the Earth.

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