Future Planetary Exploration

In a previous post (http://futureplanets.blogspot.com/2008/11/warring-views-on-msl.html) I printed excerpts from letters on the problems tha...

Space.com has a long article on the results of the European government meeting that set out forthcoming European Space Agency (ESA) budgets:...

Science magazine today published a letter from James Garvin, former chief scientist of NASA's Mars exploration program. Garvin strongly...

A summary of the mission (with a long description of the unsuccessful attempt to find a way to include a Europa lander) is at http://www.spa...

The Juno New Frontiers mission to Jupiter has been officially approved: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-222 I'm a big...