18 July 2016
NASA unveils new Mars 2020 rover
...Washington. "This mission marks a significant milestone in NASA's Journey to Mars to determine whether life has ever existed on Mars, and to advance our goal of sending humans to the Red Planet." Although Mars 2020 will look similar to Curiosity with...
22 March 2021
The first look at Ingenuity on Mars
... the Marscopter to the surface of the planet. When NASA’s Mars 2020 mission successfully deployed the Perseverance rover on the Red... conducted one week into its near seven-month journey to Mars, showed that the rotorcraft's six lithium-ion batteries...
13 March 2019
'Marscopter' to accompany rover on Mars 2020 mission
... fly the mission on its own. The first hurdle is to get it to Mars successfully - something NASA is generally good at – and once safely ensconced on the ground, it will be the Mars 2020 rover’s job to take the helicopter to a suitable location ready...
17 May 2017
SLS/Orion mission delayed until 2019
... not have a life-cycle cost estimate for the project yet. NASA has not given up on the idea of going to Mars, but is pragmatic in its approach to how this might be achieved; “if the Agency is to reach its goal of sending...
27 March 2019
NASA to land humans on the Moon again by 2024 - but with better fitting spacesuits hopefully
...Jim Bridenstine has just announced that ‘President Donald Trump has asked NASA to accelerate US plans to return to the Moon and to... to overcome in order to be treated as equals. NASA astronaut Christina Koch who had been scheduled to install powerful...
January 2017
Blueprint for NASA’s journey to Mars
... Base Camp concept builds upon existing deep space technologies in development today and provides a blueprint for NASA’s Journey to Mars. This plan provides the opportunity for significant scientific discovery, can be evolved to accommodate specific...
