NASA Selects Solar Mission Concepts For Further Study

Mark Carreau August 14, 2019
Credit: Sun: NASA
HOUSTON—NASA will invest $400,000 in each of two nine-month secondary mission concept studies involving the Sun. The first study is to better understand the distant boundary between the Sun’s influence and the interstellar medium. The other study will explore the variabilities in the outermost...
Mark Carreau

Mark is based in Houston, where he has written on aerospace for more than 25 years. While at the Houston Chronicle, he was recognized by the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation in 2006 for his professional contributions to the public understanding of America's space program through news reporting.

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