January 2022
Earth - no longer humanity’s only home
... as ‘home’ – the Earth-Moon system, as seen in 1990 by the Galileo spacecraft. As we venture farther from Earth on our journey to Mars, our sense of home will continue to change. The farther we go into space, the smaller home will become...
18 July 2016
NASA unveils new Mars 2020 rover
...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... and divert to safe ground nearby," said Allen Chen, Mars 2020 entry, descent and landing lead at NASA's Jet ...
22 March 2021
The first look at Ingenuity on Mars
... that might be part of future robotic and human missions to Mars. Its first objective however, is just to last the night.... system 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
... to though. “Flying a heavier-than-air vehicle within Mars’ thin atmosphere has never been done before, and we’re ... of the surface below for transmission back to Earth. “The Mars Helicopter’s initial flight will represent that planet’s version of the ...
17 May 2017
SLS/Orion mission delayed until 2019
... Development and Operations or GSDO) needed to send astronauts to Mars in the 2030’s, but it still faces significant obstacles in... 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;...
27 March 2019
NASA to land humans on the Moon again by 2024 - but with better fitting spacesuits hopefully
It has been a tumultuous week this week for NASA as far as news goes. The space agency’s Administrator Jim Bridenstine has just announced that ‘President Donald Trump has asked NASA to accelerate US plans to return to the Moon and to land humans on ...
