NASA’s New Frontier Program Will Disclose Another Bold Mission By 2019

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is about to take consider of another new bold mission under its popular New Frontier program. The New Frontier program, conducted by NASA, is a series of space exploration missions, which previously had given so many successful operations like this. They are- "New Horizon" to Pluto (2006-2015), the "Juno" to Jupiter (2011-2016), and "OSIRIS-Rex" to asteroid Bennu (2016-2018, expected). Planetary Missions Program Office at the Marshall Space Flight Center for NASA's Planetary Science Division manages the New Frontier program of NASA.

According to Engadget, recently it's reported that for the upcoming unnamed bold mission, 12 unique proposals was submitted under NASA's New Frontier program. After a deep scientific and technical speculation of at least seven months, NASA will select the best mission. The selected mission under the New Frontier program of NASA will take the time to develop up to 2019 or middle of 2020 and also will cost approximately $1B.

It's also reported that NASA's agency wants to keep the news of the new mission as private as they can. Though we can guess the idea of proposals from the agency's submitted themes. They are- "Comet Surface Sample Return", "Lunar South Pole-Aitken Basin Sample Return", "ocean worlds of Titan or Enceladus", "Saturn Probe", "Trojan Tour" and last but not the least "Venus in Situ Exploration".

According to Scrolltoday, in an interview Linda Spilker, one of the scientists of the NASA's project, has stated that among 12 proposals, three want to go with investigating Saturn, one wants to bring gas from Saturn, another wants to explore Titan's hydrocarbon lakes. While the third one wants to research on geysers of Enceladus for finding amino acid. Thomas Zurbuchen, the associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission directorate of Washington, has recently proclaimed that NASA is now looking forward to reviewing those investigations and moving forward with a next bold mission.

NASA's goal is now to select the best adventurous mission, develop it by 2019, and to launch it by 2024. All the successful missions are based on NASA's New Frontier program's scientific information and high-resolution images. It is to be hoped that in near future NASA will be able to gamble with the hidden mystery of the Universe, once again.