The race to Mars:

  • America, Europe/Russia, China and the United Arab Emirates are going to Mars
  • They are all launching in 2020 as Earth and Mars are best placed for a landing 
  • Three of the missions will be searching for life on the surface of the Red Planet
  • Richard Branson is also expected to fly to space on board a Virgin Galactic flight
  • There are four major missions bound for Mars this year, with the USA, Europe, China and the United Arab Emirates all preparing to depart in the summer.
    The flurry of Martian launches are due to the fact that, in July 2020, Earth and Mars are ideally positioned relative to each other for spaceships to land.
    Three of the four missions will see rovers landing on the planet in search of ancient signs of life, the other mission will see a UAE-built orbiter study the atmosphere.
    There are hundreds of other space missions in 2020 not going to Mars, including the first commercially operated flights to the International Space Station.

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