The group wants to launch a supply mission that will land on Mars in October 2016.
This was a small British craft intended to land on Mars on December 25th.
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They are looking at many options, including another robotic mission to land on Mars in this decade.
The group wants to launch a supply mission that will land on Mars as soon as October 2016.
The ESA's Mars Express leads the pack of several probes expected to land on Mars in the next decade.
The first wheeled vehicle to land on Mars was during NASA's 1997 Mars Pathfinder mission, which consisted of a stationary lander and a surface rover called Sojourner.
"Perhaps one day a student selected for the Red Rover Goes To Mars project will become one of the first astronauts to actually land on Mars itself, " Glenn said.
The preferred rocket, Falcon Heavy, has to yet to be tested by its makers, SpaceX, even though the Mars One plan calls for the first demonstration flight to land on Mars in 2016.
For instance, there is no clear linkage between the details in the plan and the space exploration goals and priorities established by the administration in terms of sending astronauts to an asteroid as an interim destination before sending humans to orbit and eventually to land on Mars.
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And it would help the mission to land humans on Mars because it "looks a lot like sending a crew to Mars and returning them safely, " Grunsfeld said.
Suppose I presented you with a plan to land an astronaut on Mars.
When President Bush announced an initiative to land a man on Mars by 2050 during the election campaign in 2004, he was ridiculed for that.
The probe was built to land on the larger of Mars' two moons, Phobos, and scoop up rock to bring back to Earth.
Personally I think that the bouncing ball approach should be the standard way to land a small unmanned probe on Mars.
NASA's Tom Rivellini joins us to discuss "seven minutes of terror, " and what it takes to land a rover on the surface of Mars.
Earlier this year, NASA pulled out of an ambitious, joint U.S.-European effort to land a next-generation rover on Mars and eventually return some samples to Earth.
Where once America could land a man on the moon, now it is reduced to sending WallE to Mars.
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