For over 40 years we have been sending robotic emissaries to Mars - sometimes successfully, often not - to learn about the planet and whether it has ever been a habitat. In the past decade alone, no fewer than five NASA and one European spacecraft - three orbiters and three landers - ...
The crew has received several tributes to their memory over the years. On Mars, the rover Spirit's landing site wasceremonially named Columbia Memorial Station. Also, seven asteroids orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter now bear the crew's names. Additional resources Read more about how t...
“A large asteroid impact is potentially the only natural disaster humanity has the technology to predict years in advance and take action to prevent,” said Lindley Johnson, NASA planetary defense officer emeritus. NASA has so far only released arelatively brief summaryof the findings from the ex...
The temperature on Mars is relatively low, averaging about minus 80 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 60 degrees Celsius).
America’s relationship with spaceflight would be harder to fix. Challenger was the beginning of the end in a lot of ways. The nation that had watched NASA land men on the moon just 11 years after its inception expected a space station, Mars missions and even space tourism in short order...
What is NASA's Mars rover, Opportunity? How has manned spaceflight impacted the world economy? Why did the Apollo program end? Were there vacuum tubes in the Apollo spacecraft? Why is it so difficult to land a spacecraft on Mars? What are the main parts of a space shuttle? Why were ...
In the 1960s, humans set out to discover what the red planet has to teach us. Now, NASA is hoping to land the first humans on Mars by the 2030s.
With futureIngenuity-inspired drones in mind, remember there are also big opportunities for small businesses in NASA’s large programs. When theCuriosityrover landed on Mars in 2012, CNNreportedthe program was supporting about 300 non-NASA jobs, many of them in smaller businesses that acted ...
NASA would also suffer from another setback to Starliner. The space agency hopes for the space station to be continuously crewed as it uses the orbital laboratory to explore future missions to more distant destinations, such as the moon or Mars. At the moment, it is too reliant on SpaceX....
What are some interesting things we have learned about Omega Centauri? It's pretty likely that Omega Centauri is the largest globular cluster in the Milky Way. At 10 million stars, it's much bigger than most, which have more like a million stars. Also, it has multiple populations in it...