Mars 2020 mission lAunch, with the Perseverance rover on board.Image: NASA / Joel Kowsky True to this dying year of 2020, yesterday’s launch of NASA’s Perseverance Mars. The rover was not without problems. As scheduled, a ULA Atlas V rocket carrying the Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter gotten up of …
Read More »Searching for life on Mars: NASA prepares to launch its latest rover | Science
NASA’s most sophisticated rover has yet to launch into Mars on a mission to answer one of the deeper questions: did life arise on another planet? Mission controllers have set their sights on the 28-mile-wide (45 km) Jezero crater north of the planet’s equator. The landing site is one of …
Read More »NASA launches Mars Perseverance rover on mission to red planet
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket carrying NASA nuclear energy. Perseverance Mars rover it roared to life and took off from Cape Canaveral early Thursday morning, the first step in a decade-long program to look for signs of past microbial life and collect samples of rock and soil for …
Read More »NASA’s lunar mission asks American universities to develop science technology
northAsa has asked American universities to come up with new technologies to help the space agency conduct a sustainable exploration of the moon. Selected applicants will receive up to $ 2 million (£ 1.5 million) from the recently launched Lunar Surface Technology Research (Lustr) opportunity to rapidly develop technology in …
Read More »SpaceX Crew Dragon astronauts prepare for rainy Sunday, weather permitting
To control a possible tropical storm, NASA is moving forward with plans to bring two astronauts and their SpaceX Ferry Back to Earth Sunday with a dip in the Gulf of Mexico. It will be the first pilot reentry of a Crew Dragon spacecraft and NASA’s first ocean landing in …
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