Aurora Exploration Programme

A compilation of animations regarding future projects of the Aurora Programme.
0:00 Mars sample return, 2 missions (2001-2017)
1:56 Human Mars mission, decision (2015),
mission (2025-2030)
3:50 Human Moon mission, (2020-2025)
Music credit- 'Prospectors Arrive' by John Greenwood. Source- http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Aurora/SEM1NVZKQAD_0.html

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Mars
• aurora
• exploration
• programme
• exomars
• red
• planet
• human
• moon
• mission
• european
• space
• agency

[assimptotico]

Would mankind invest half the money spent on

wars, weapons and armies in pacific research,

including space explorations, our world would be

much better.

[AmericaOwnz]

we need to start colonizing space...it seems our species is still so primitive. would be nice if we could travel the stars as they do in the major sci-fi shows/movies.

[TheWheels1965]

this program is leaving shit all over the place!! Come up with a better idea. Please, and cut the cost! They could build a space station with the crap they are leaving behind in space. 

[AmericaOwnz]

@sourmanofcoal ya space is so magnificent, there's some many amazing new worlds we could explore...it's just sad that we put no money into interstellar space travel and waste it on really stupid things.

sadly I think only future generations might get that opportunity and thrill to put human footprints on an alien-hopefully earth-like world one day.

[GrigoriZhukov]

@nikobrown1990 heh, not that nasa hasn't been building and devloping the military rockets from the day they opened the front door. Redstone, Gemini...the shuttle was influenced and built to make the air farce happy. The europeans talk a good game...but they haven't as much experience as the Rus, Americans or the Japanese and Chinese. 8^\ But hey, let's not let those facts get in the way.

[sourmanofcoal]

@AmericaOwnz I CRY LIKE A BABY WHEN I SEE SPACE.

[sourmanofcoal]

@assimptotico They Do. and You dont think there will be wars in the future?

[nikobrown1990]

@Mark48152 maybe you should have paid more attention to the video before blurbing out random shit about NASA and USAF, firstly this is a European Space Agency mission, it has nothing to do with NASA. Secondly NASA is a civilian government agency, it has nothing to do with the US military, what possible reason could the US military have for going into space anyway? flying an aircraft and flying a rocket are completely different.

[nikobrown1990]

@krackfoxtube completely agree, wars speed up the invention of radical and futuristic technologies as a way of "1-upping" the enemy. without wars and competition, our species' advancement would slow to snails pace. This happens because more and more of the public get behind and support (with taxes) the governments' aims, you only need to look at the 1960s space race to see this, the cold war was the catalyst that forced the US and the soviet union off this planet and onto the Moon.

[krackfoxtube]

@assimptotico it was only because of the war we had the technology to get to the moon.

[Armigo91]

There cannot even be a scenario in which they would be accesible only for the government because of its maintainence cost. Cause the hypothetical aurora project that once seemed to be took place in the 1980s. And in 3 decades later theyre still figuring out how to make scramjets without burning the ships hull past mach 10.

So dont spread such bullshit around please, give me a break.

[Armigo91]

@Mark48152

What a shitload of nonsense.

There is no F19. And the F** (stand for fighter) and in your fantasy story its a ship that can reach LEO but its a fighter jet by name. The F19 was skipped by northrop grumann aerospaces. Just like many fighter jets ranging between F22 And F35 havent been given names by counts between both.

Aurora was a science project once that has never gotten into practive.

And regarding all available or even theoretical and perhaps hypothetical propulsion systems