Reports how the July, 1997, investigations of Mars and the asteroid Mathilde have reinforced the United States space program's new strategy of smaller, less expensive science missions. Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous probe which sent pictures of Mathilde on its way to another encounter; Mars Path...
InSight is the first mission of NASA to investigate the deep interior of Mars and is part of a legacy of robotic exploration that is helping to lay the groundwork for sending humans to Mars in the 2030s. The mission will place a stationary lander near Mars' equator. With two solar panels...
Rest easy, little lander @NASAInSight's mission has ended after more than four years of detecting marsquakes, meteoroid impacts, and unique science on Mars. Congratulations – and thank you – to the team that made these pioneering discoveries possible.https://t.co/MCRzWYFSMdpic.twitter.com...
NASA declares Opportunity Mars rover mission overNASA announced Feb. 13 that it was ending efforts to restore contact with the Opportunity Mars rover, bringing its mission to an end more than 15 years after it landed on the planet.中国医药导刊...
The project is part of the Relevant Environment Additive Construction Technology (REACT), a multi-year collaboration to develop technologies for lunar surface constructions within the timeframe of the Artemis Mission: humankind’s return to the Moon. LINA is a step in the effort to expand ...
Nelson said a major reason for the ballooning cost was a billion-dollar hit to NASA's science budget that was part of a congressional deal to secure funding for the debt ceiling. NASA received $310 million for the sample return mission in the agency's fiscal 2024 bu...
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has completed the first test of its Mars 2020 mission's parachute-testing series, the Advanced Supersonic Parachute Inflation Research Experiment, or ASPIRE, the U.S. space agency announced. ...
The mission is named after the Greek goddess of the moon, Artemis, and is part of NASA’s larger goal to send humans to Mars in 2040 or so, about ten years after Shotwell says SpaceX will. Clearly, this is a major step forward for space exploration, and we can’t wait to see what...
Four volunteers exited a mock Mars habitat at NASA's Johnson Space Center on July 6, bringing the agency's first year-long simulated Red Planet mission to an end.
NASA is both tasking people within the agency to come up with a new plan and inviting contributions from private industry that could help make the mission a reality. As well as finding a simpler and cheaper way to do things, the agency is also hoping that the mission timeline can be broug...