In 2022 the ExoMars Mission was dealt a critical blow. 20 years in the making, the ambitious project was plagued by various technological setbacks as well as numerous economic and political crises. With unprecedented access to the mission, and the thousands of men and women from 20 different countries who worked on the project, we look at how the dream of finding life on Mars was ultimately doomed. Tune into Exomars: Europe's Impossible Mission, Wednesday 31st May at 8pm, only on National Geogra

On October 16, 2016, the joint ESA - European Space Agency and Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) mission's Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) will release the entry, descent and landing demonstrator "Schiaparelli." https://goo.gl/SkzSUo | Space.com

British Astronaut Tim Peake on why we should care about Mars and a rover called Rosalind Franklin 🚀 | BBC Beds, Herts & Bucks