Nasa unveils plan to catch asteroid as step to Mars flightReuters
NASA hired SpaceX and Boeing after the shuttle program ended, in order to have two competing U.S. companies for transporting astronauts to and from the space station until its abandoned in 2030 and steered to a fiery reentry. By then, it will have been up there more than three decades; ...
Trump's 2026 budget plan would cancel NASA's Mars Sample Return mission. Experts say that's a 'major step back' How to watch the 2025 Humans to the Moon & Mars Summit May 28 and 29 (video) Trump's pick for NASA chief tells Senate he's aiming for the Red Planet. 'We will priorit...
[05:35.61]Koerner added, "They've been separated from their families, placed on a carefully prescribed meal plan and undergone a lot of observation." [05:47.61]He noted that "Mars is our goal," and called the project an i...
Even if it doesn’t show, NASA is engaged in perhaps the most ambitious program in its history. Called Artemis, the plan is not only to have people back on the Moon by the middle of the decade, but also use the Earth satellite as a staging area for future missions to Mars. ...
A committee tasked by the White House toreview NASA’s plans for human spaceflighthas been considering a ‘Mars Direct’ scenario that would eliminate the agency’s plan to return astronauts to the moon by 2020 in favour of building vehicles for a Mars mission. ...
Called Ingenuity, it would be the first human-made vehicle to fly on another planet. The mission could help pave the way for humans to go to the red planet. NASA aims to perform a technology demonstration to turn carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of Mars into oxygen in t...
“After Artemis III, the overall plan is to conduct operations on and around the Moon that help prepare us for the mission durations and activities that we will experience during the first human mission to Mars, while also emplacing and building the infrastructure, systems, and robotic missions...
WASHINGTON — If NASA is to land humans on Mars by the 2030s, as President Barack Obama has directed, there's not much time to settle on a plan and develop the technologies required, agency officials said Monday (May 6). In the 1960s, America seized an opportunity to go to the moon...
This photo provided by NASA shows a rock collected by the Perseverance rover on Mars. NASA is launching two more mini helicopters to Mars in its effort to recover Martian rocks and soil samples and bring them to Earth. Under the plan announced Wednesday, July 27, 2022, NASA’s P...