A pint-sized helicopter is making the trip to Mars alongside the Perseverance rover. The helicopter will conduct autonomous flight tests in the thin Martian atmosphere. If successful, the helicopter could be used as a proof of concept for drone missions to Mars. NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover is obviously the star …
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NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) are releasing new images of the sun on Thursday morning, bringing humans closer to our host star than ever before. The photos are the first captured by Solar Orbiter, which was released earlier this year. After its launch on February 9, Solar Orbiter …
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FILE PHOTO: NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine speaks to the media during a pre-launch briefing before the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft launches on a Falcon 9 booster rocket from Pad39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA, May 29, 2020. REUTERS / Steve Nesius WASHINGTON (Reuters) – NASA …
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NASA has asked the Seti Institute to ensure that extraterrestrial life does not pollute Earth. The Seti, which means “search for extraterrestrial intelligence”, focuses mainly on discovering life in other parts of the universe. But the new contract asks him to make sure it doesn’t spread anywhere else, tasked with …
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NASA needs a lot of money if it hopes to accomplish a manned mission to the Moon by 2024, but lawmakers are not giving up. A proposed budget for NASA requested nearly $ 5 billion, but was approved for just over $ 1.5 billion, making the return of the Moon …
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