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some websites on this lost mission

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nozomi
http://www.planetary.org/mars/nozomi.html

formerly known as PLANET-B

Here would be my top Tv Media and sci-fi On the planets & Moons

Neptune : Event Horizon and tv show futurama
Venus : Ben Bova's novel Venus, Japan animation Cowboy Bebop
Saturn/Titan : Gattaca,  Stephen Baxter's novel Titan or Arthur C. Clarke's books
Our Moon : Jules Verne, Farscape, Tin Tin
Jupiter/Europa/Io: Outland, B-5, 2001 Space Odyssey & year we make contact
Mars : Total reall, War of the worlds, Babylon5
Uranus : Buck Rogers and Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos
Pluto : Dave Sim's graphic novel minds,  television show Futurama

fantastic launch,

very cool video

Mars may have to wait
http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/ar … /512250301
In Houston, at NASA's Johnson Space Center, scientists are talking about the crops that intrepid space travelers will grow when they travel to Mars.
But in Washington there's concern that the space agency's projected budget deficits may keep this country's space exploration, if not grounded, at least severely curtailed.

the Moon mission
http://www.fusiononline.com/nasa_esas.htm
The ESAS summarizes NASA's response to President Bush's directive to return to the Moon and look toward Mars exploration.

So the Zubrin Mars Habitat Unit seems like a good idea but may lack the fuel and space for it to be a great mission, the George Bush vision for Space Exploration offers a  strategy of human and robotic missions, beginning with returning the Space Shuttle to flight and completing the  Space Station and calls for humans to return to the moon and eventually explore Mars and beyond it could be good but faces budget probelms, while Russia's federal space agency has already displayed a full-scale Martian station at the last Paris Air Show but Russia has never got far with Mars, Wernher von Braun had also some great ideas for Mars but some of his plans were closer to sci-fi than space-science.

some more more info here

http://www.permanent.com/s-future.htm
http://www2.ville.montreal.qc.ca/biodom … ?langue=en

http://isecco.org/projects/celss/m_index.html
http://www.biospherics.org/resbio2labglobecol.html

ESA going to Mars in 2011
12/12/2005 5:41:00 AM
By: ESA
The ministers from the 17 ESA Member States have decided to go ahead with the core programme of the European Space Exploration programme Aurora and its first robotic exploration mission to Mars, called ExoMars.
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/content/?id=4132
Scheduled to be launched from Kourou to Mars in 2011, the ExoMars mission will deploy a highly mobile rover with an exobiology instrument suite and a drill that will reach soil samples up to two meters under the Mars surface in search of traces of extinct or still existing life.

I'm not so sure about that

thanks for the links

JIMO got cut-down

but they say the next big cooperative European-US space mission will be to Europa
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/4347571.stm

ESA selected flexible missions which work with NASA like Solar Orbiter and the Next Generation Space Telescope ( JWST ) the planned successor to the Hubble Space Telescope
http://www.physicstoday.org/pt/vol-54/iss-2/p27.html

nature.com/nature/journal/v434/n7033/full/434551a.html
agencies mull over mutual mission to Europa : Nature

The Chinese government has all along regarded the space industry as an integral part of the state's comprehensive development strategy. China's CASC is a large  enterprise that builds many different series of satellites,  CAST said some of the satellites such as a polar-orbiting Sun-synchronous weather satellite FY-1D and the oceanorgaphic satellite Haiyang-1 are being constructed, while the Chinese are also doing some work with Russia, joint missions with ESA to explore the magnetosphere using the Double-Star craft and have offered co-operative ventures with the United States.
China has set up three launching sites - in Jiuquan, Xichang and Taiyuan - which have successfully accomplished various kinds of test flights of launching vehicles and launches of a variety of satellites and experimental spacecraft. On March 3 1971, a LM-1 vehicle was also used to launch China's first Shijian scientific experiment satellite, which was operating in space for 8 years and obtained scientific  data in space. Shi Jian 5, the SJ-5 satellite was launched into an 870 km similar circle orbit on May 10, 1999. The satellite was designed to operate normally in orbit for three months and carry out a two-layer scientific experiment in microgravity environment, new technology demonstration experiment, and the detection and countermeasure research of the single particle. According to the preset sequence the SJ-5 was launched, tested in orbit, transferred, managed for a long time and tested for lifetime. China plans more Dongfanghong communications satellites and is also lauching Fengyun weather satellites, and Ziyuan remote sensing Earth resource satellites, and plans some more Beidou navigation satellites.
http://test0036.blogspot.com/
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/forums … 1&posts=17

Manufacturing of the carrier rocket and satellite for China's first lunar expedition has kicked off, according to the State Commission of Space, Technology and Industry for National Defence.
Related facilities including the launch and ground application systems have begun testing, said spokesman Jin Zhuanglong at a press briefing.
China is scheduled to send its first satellite to the moon in April 2007 from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in Southwest China's Sichuan Province, in a one-year lunar mission dubbed Chang'e Project.
http://english.people.com.cn/200601/06/ … 33312.html
http://www.astronautix.com/craft/change.htm
Chang'e 1 is planned to be the first of a series of Chinese missions to the Moon. The spacecraft will launch in late 2007 on a CZ-3A booster and orbit the Moon for a year to test the technology for future missions and to study the lunar environment and surface regolith. The orbiter is based on the DFH-3 Comsat bus and will have a mass of roughly 2000 kg, 150 kg of which will be the scientific payload.
China's plans to send a spacecraft around the moon have reached a new stage, with the unmanned orbiter and rocket entering production and testing, China's top aerospace official said on Thursday.
Luan Enjie, commander of China's Round The Moon project, said the Chang'e 1 Lunar Orbiter and a launch rocket are being assembled and tested, and the launch site and command system are also taking shape, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. Luan said the craft is still on schedule to be launched in 2007. The payload will include a stereo camera system to map the lunar surface, an altimeter to measure the distance between the spacecraft and the surface, a gamma/X-ray spectrometer to study the overall composition and radioactive components of the Moon, a microwave radiometer to map the thickness of the lunar regolith, and a system of space environment monitors to collect data on the solar wind and near-lunar region. The Chang'e program is named for a Chinese legend about a young fairy who flies to the Moon.