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NASA Makes History With First Helicopter Flight On Another Planet
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration made history Monday morning when it conducted the first ever powered and controlled flight…
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Watch Live: NASA Holds Perseverance Post-Landing Briefing – 2/18/21
NASA has scheduled a post-landing briefing Thursday to discuss what they have learned since Perseverance touched down on Mars. The…
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SUCCESS! NASA’s Perseverance Rover Lands on Mars
NASA’s Perseverance Rover successfully landed on Mars after a less than 10-minute descent from space that began just before 4…
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United Launch Alliance Atlas V Successfully Launches Mars 2020 Mission for NASA
Launch Marks ULA’s 20th Mission to the Red PlanetA United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying the Mars 2020…
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Watch: NASA and ULA Launch New Mission to Mars
NASA is set to launch its Perseverance Rover and Ingenuity Helicopter to Mars on Thursday. The Rover will head to…
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NASA Announces Finalists in Competition to Build Shelters On Mars
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced on Thursday the three final teams who will compete for the privilege of…
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NASA Begins America’s New Moon to Mars Exploration Approach in 2018
NASA welcomed a new administrator, Jim Bridenstine, deputy administrator, Jim Morhard, and chief financial officer, Jeff DeWit, in 2018. Their focus is on…
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Watch: NASA engineers successfully land InSight robotic spacecraft on Mars
See inside mission control at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory as signals return from the InSight mission as it lands on…
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There Is A Strange, ‘Plume-Like’ Cloud Hanging Over Mars
A “curious” plume-shaped cloud that appeared near Mars’s equator is growing and now casts a long trail from an alien volcano, Oct.…
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NASA is sending a helicopter to Mars
NASA is sending something to Mars that no one before has, a helicopter. The Mars Helicopter will be included in…
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What is NASA’s InSight Mars Mission? [Launch Video and Info]
InSight, the first planetary mission to take off from the West Coast, launched at 4:05 a.m. PDT (7:05 a.m. EDT)…
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Watch Live: SpaceX takes Budweiser on Next Step to Be First Beer on Mars
update: The launch has been postponed until Friday at 8:46 a.m. PST. Live Stream will start at 7:30 a.m. PST.…
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NASA Tests RS-25 Rocket Engine – The Engine to Mars
NASA conducted a 500-second test Thursday afternoon of an upgraded Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-25 rocket engine that will power future spaceflights…
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This is why it’s so hard to land on Mars [video]
Of all the planets and moons we have landed upon, Mars has the lowest success rate, but why?
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