Wednesday, November 11, 2009

NASA and ESA Sign Mars Exploration Joint Initiative


Future missions to Mars - like the ExoMars lander pictured - will be a combined effort of NASA and the ESA.
NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) have officially agreed to combine their efforts in the exploration and study of Mars. The heads of both agencies, NASA administrator Charles Boden and ESA director-general Jean-Jacques Dordain signed an agreement that officially binds the two agencies together for upcoming orbiter and rover missions. Discussions of this cooperation began in December of 2008, and culminated in a meeting in June 2009, out of which came the official agreement signed last week. Click to continue…

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