The U.S. National Air and Space Administration (NASA) outlined on October 26 an ambitious program to explore Mars over the next 2 decades.The program includes 6 major missions during the current decade, and a series of science orbiters, rovers, and landers planned for the second decade....
Perseverance will be continuing this search for life and will be accompanied by Mars missions fromChinaand theU.A.E. "I would say it's the first Nasa mission since Viking to do that," said Ken Williford, the deputy project scientist at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Jezero Crater The ...
The video (below) shows engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which oversees Mars missions, working on different aspects of the MSR mission, including developing a system that throws the sample-carrying rocket in the air before its engines ignite to send it toward the waiting ...
While NASA’s newer Perseverance rover tends to get all the headlines these days, the Curiosity rover also continues to explore the surface of Mars more than a decade after it reached the red planet. The team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which oversees the Mars rover mission...
This will be the first set of missions that NASA has used to send a crew to the moon since the Apollo 17 mission in December 1972, more than 50 years ago. The mission broke several records, including the longest spacewalk and largest lunar samples brought back to Earth and al...
Certainly, NASA's Year of the Dwarf Planet is an unofficial designation and NASA representatives would be quick to emphasize another dozen or more missions that are of importance during the year 2015. However, these two missions could determine the fate of billions or more small bodies just with...
and has been working the space beat since 2016. Josh has covered the evolution of NASA's commercial spaceflight partnerships, from early Dragon and Cygnus cargo missions to the ongoing development and launches of crewed missions from the Space Coast, as well as NASA science missions and more. ...
According to the article IX of the OUTER SPACE TREATY (London / Washington January 27., 1967), extraterrestrial missions should be conducted in a manner that protects the planets and the Earth from contamination. Consequently, COSPAR (Committee of Space Research) has established Planetary Protection...
In 2025, NASA is planning to land the first astronauts on the lunar surface in more than 50 years. When the astronauts finally get there, they’ll record their adventure with a specially designed camera offering image quality far superior to that captured by the Apollo missions five decades ag...
NASA isn’t the only space agency with kit on its way to Mars at this very moment. Missions fromChinaand theUnited Arab Emiratesalso scheduled to reach the planet in February. Editors’ Recommendations Follow Mars rover’s 18-mile trip in NASA’s animated route map ...