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...
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 ...
NASA’s Perseverance rover is less than three weeks away from touching down on Mars, as it nears the end of an almost 300-million-mile journey that started in July 2020. To give space fans the chance to learn more about the final moments of the rover’s epic trip, NASA has releasedthi...
🟤He has participated in or managed many international space missions, including the former Soviet Union's Venera programme; the US NASA's (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Mars Pathfinder mission; and the European Space...
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...
A comparison of the trajectories of New Horizons (left) and the Dawn missions (right). Credit: NASA/JPL, SWRI, Composite- T.Reyes Together, the space probes Dawn and New Horizons have been in flight for a collective 17 years. One remained close to home and the other departed to parts ...
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...
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. ...
NASA has released a cinematic animation showing some of the key moments from the upcoming Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission.Mars Sample Return: Bringing Mars Rock Samples Back to Earth The complex uncrewed mission involves multiple spacecraft and is set to launch in 2033....