China National Space Administration plans to launch a Mars sample-return
TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 2021
China is making plans for the future development of its space program, including exploring asteroids and the Jovian system, collecting samples from Mars and exploring the polar region of the moon, said an official from the China National Space Administration-CNSA on Saturday.
The same people financing the XPrize, the multimillion-dollar endowment for spacecraft research, are now are offering two new prizes worth $10 million each for a device capable of rendering carbon from coal or gas into a form suited to practical uses.