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In 1976, NASA's Viking Project sent the first images from a Mars lander back to Earth; its landing-site lessons influenced later U.S. Mars missionsIn 1976, Viking 1's successful touchdown on Mars set in motion a vital new strategy for choosing landing sites. Following safety concerns t...- From Thumba to tomorrow: Indian space programme is preparing for its biggest leap yetIndia's space program began with a small rocket range in 1962. It progressed to launching its first satellite and developing indigenous lau...
- Trump pledges 'golden age' of space travelUS President Trump plans to boost American space travel and lunar missions. The United States aims to compete with China for a moon landing...
- Donald Trump pushes commercial space boom with 1,000-launch annual goalPresident Trump signed a memo to significantly increase U.S. commercial space launches. The directive aims for one thousand launches and re...
- Boulder used a two-day gathering of scientists and engineers to tackle the challenge of reaching Titan; the result transformed the roadmap for human exploration beyond Mars, revealing that time and technology are the real barriersScientists and engineers explored the feasibility of human missions to Titan. Titan offers a dense atmosphere and abundant local chemistry ...
- 5 years before Apollo 11, a landlocked African nation tried to send teenagers to the Moon to beat the US and USSR, but the failed mission was probably never about the space race at allEdward Mukuka Nkoloso led Zambia's ambitious space program after independence. He trained teenage "Afronauts" using unconventional methods ...
- It was built for 30 days. It survived 1,004: How a 4-pound helicopter became one of NASA's greatest success storiesNASA's Ingenuity helicopter surpassed expectations, operating for over a thousand days instead of the initially planned thirty. Completing ...
- India's private space industry shoots for the starsPrivate companies are reshaping India's space ambitions, building rockets and satellites as the country pushes to capture a bigger share of...
- Indian spacetech industry shoots for the starsPrivate companies are reshaping India's space ambitions, building rockets and satellites as the country pushes to capture a bigger share of...
- NASA's Curiosity rover uncovers unusual honeycomb-like pattern on Mars. What does it mean?NASA's Curiosity rover has photographed an unusual honeycomb-like pattern on Mars. This striking network of polygon-shaped ridges stretches...
- The Founder of Rocket Lab on Competing with Billionaires to Lead in SpaceRocket Lab launches more rockets at a faster pace than any rival and is expanding into satellites and deep-space missions. Four principles ...
- NASA's Perseverance discovers a rich cache of organic molecules on Mars, suggesting the building blocks of life were widespread on the ancient Red PlanetLife on Mars: Scientists have detected complex organic matter in an ancient river valley on Mars, specifically within Jezero Crater. This d...
- China's Zhurong Rover says Mars had water traces more recently than everThousands of millions of years more recently than previously believed, Mars may have had liquid water, according to China's Zhurong Rover. ...
- China's Mars craft enters parking orbit before landing roverThe China National Space Administration said the spacecraft executed a maneuver to adjust its orbit early Wednesday morning Beijing time an...
- Elon Musk scouting for potential Mars landing sites
- NASA shortlists US teen's idea for Mars rover landing siteNASA replied with an email inviting him to attend the first landing site planning conference, and was scheduled to speak in the last sessio...
- NASA orbiter captures sites of "The Martian" landingsThe Matt Damon-starrer "The Martian" begins with a region on Red Planet called Acidalia Planitia - the landing site for the sci-fi film's "...
- NASA unveils first plane to fly on Mars"The aircraft would be part of the ballast that would be ejected from the aeroshell that takes the Mars rover to the planet," Bowers said.
- NASA tests technologies for safe and precise spacecraft landingADAPT technology has numerous potential applications, including landing on the Moon, asteroids and other space targets.
- ISRO releases picture of comet taken by Mars OrbiterOn a day when European Space Agency is attempting to place a robot Philae on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, ISRO today released images of...
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