{"id":120276,"date":"2017-09-29T04:46:14","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T08:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=120276"},"modified":"2017-09-29T04:51:01","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T08:51:01","slug":"lockheed-martin-reveals-mars-landing-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/09\/29\/lockheed-martin-reveals-mars-landing-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockheed Martin reveals Mars landing plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_120282\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-120282\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/FixOob6K_400x400.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-120282\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/FixOob6K_400x400.jpg\" alt=\"Lockheed Martin (Photo: LockheedMartin\/Twitter)\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/FixOob6K_400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/FixOob6K_400x400-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/FixOob6K_400x400-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-120282\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lockheed Martin <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LockheedMartin?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\" target=\"_blank\">(Photo: <\/a>LockheedMartin\/Twitter)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>ADELAIDE<\/strong> \u2014 US defense, aerospace and security giant Lockheed Martin on Friday revealed plans for a Mars lander and a base camp.<\/p>\n<p>Presenting during the final day of the 68th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Adelaide, South Australia, Lockheed Martin revealed its new Mars Ascent Descent Vehicle (MADV), a reusable lander that will be used in manned missions to Mars.<\/p>\n<p>The Mars Base Camp, an orbiting outpost the company believes will be the key to landing on Mars, was also unveiled.<\/p>\n<p>The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has partnered with Lockheed Martin in its attempt to land humans on Mars by the 2030s.<\/p>\n<p>Lockheed Martin also announced that it is developing prototypes for the Deepspace Gateway project, a collaboration between the United States and Russia, which will see a space station launched into lunar orbit to act as a staging point for future missions to the lunar surface and deeper into space.<\/p>\n<p>It is from the Deepspace Gateway that the Mars Base Camp would be constructed and launched into Martian orbit.<\/p>\n<p>NASA and Lockheed Martin&#8217;s Mars landing plan revolves around deploying a manned Orion rocket to get a team of astronauts to the base camp, from where they will use a MADV to reach the surface of the planet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sending humans to Mars has always been a part of science fiction, but today we have the capability to make it a reality,&#8221; Lisa Callahan, vice president and general manager of commercial civil space at Lockheed Martin, told the IAC on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Partnered with NASA, our vision leverages hardware currently in development and production. We&#8217;re proud to have Orion powered-on and completing testing in preparation for its Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1) flight and eventually its journey to Mars.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The first Orion EM-1 mission will be launched to the moon in 2019 with the first crewed Orion mission to lunar orbit occurring in 2021 or 2022.\u00a0\u00a0<em><strong>(Xinhua)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ADELAIDE \u2014 US defense, aerospace and security giant Lockheed Martin on Friday revealed plans for a Mars lander and a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":120282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5742,5],"tags":[25326,10090],"class_list":["post-120276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science-2","category-technology","tag-lockheed-martin","tag-mars","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}