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Jan 25, 2023

3D-printed rocket makers will send a payload to Mars by 2025

On Dec. 23, 2022, American aerospace manufacturing company Relativity Space conducted a test of its entirely 3D printed Aeon R…

BYTeam Mighty

Jan 25, 2023

BYMiguel Ortiz

Mar 25, 2021

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter carries a piece of the Wright Flyer

NASA announced its target date for the first powered, controlled helicopter flight on Mars as no earlier than April 8,…

BYMiguel Ortiz

Mar 25, 2021

BYSandboxx

Aug 10, 2020

Watch: SpaceX just tested the starship they say will take us to Mars

On Monday, SpaceX conducted a short test flight of a full sized prototype of the Starship they say will soon ferry Americans to Mars. The Starship SN5 Test Vehicle flew for only about 40 seconds on Monday evening before touching back down to e…

BYSandboxx

Aug 10, 2020

BYBusiness Insider

Jun 9, 2020

Elon Musk reportedly tells SpaceX’s 7,000 employees in email to shift their focus to the rocket designed to eventually take people to the moon — and Mars

Elon Musk is pushing SpaceX’s more than 7,000 employees to not waste any time after its first crewed space launch. A little over a week ago, the rocket company successfully

BYBusiness Insider

Jun 9, 2020

BYBusiness Insider

Apr 29, 2020

Video shows what it would take to turn Earth into a volcanic hellscape

You’re not going to wake up one morning to see Jupiter hanging in the sky, but two stunning animations show what it would look like if you did. Amateur astronomer Nicholas Holmes makes videos about space on his Youtube channel,

BYBusiness Insider

Apr 29, 2020

BYUnited States Air Force

Apr 29, 2020

Air Force lab on Mars-like island is straight out of sci-fi movie

Space has been the center of conversation in the news and entertainment. There was even a movie about future human inhabitants on Mars! But how would that happen? How would we be able to sustain growing food? Mars, a dry and dusty planet, would not …

BYUnited States Air Force

Apr 29, 2020

BYBusiness Insider

Apr 29, 2020

Seasoned astronaut has a big problem with NASA spacesuits

NASA, you have a spacesuit problem. That was the crux of a message delivered on Sep. 6, 2019 by Sandra “Sandy” Magnus, a seasoned former astronaut, during an official meeting of spaceflight safety experts in Houston, Texas, on Sep. 6, 2019.

BYBusiness Insider

Apr 29, 2020

BYLogan Nye

Apr 29, 2020

How the Army tried to explore ancient Mars with a psychic

In 1984, the Army was studying all sorts of paranormal phenomena, from men trying to walk through walls and move objects with their mind to killing goats from 100 feet away. One of the lesser-known experiments was in “astral projection” with soldi…

BYLogan Nye

Apr 29, 2020

BYBusiness Insider

Apr 29, 2020

NASA executive says a US-China Mars mission is not in the cards

NASA is pressing to return astronauts to the moon in just five years, then launch the first crew to Mars in the 2030s. The latter journey may cost the US hundreds of billions of dollars. But an agency executive says the US has no plans to shar…

BYBusiness Insider

Apr 29, 2020

BYNASA

Apr 29, 2020

These technologies will help return astronauts to the Moon

Robotically surveying lunar craters in record time and mining resources in space could help NASA establish a sustained human presence at the Moon – part of the agency’s broader Moon to Mars exploration approach. Two mission concepts to explore th…

BYNASA

Apr 29, 2020

BYNASA

Apr 29, 2020

NASA is helping you make your mark on Mars

Although it will be years before the first humans set foot on Mars, NASA is giving the public an opportunity to send their names — stenciled on chips — to the Red Planet with NASA’s Mars 2020 rover, which represents the initial leg of humanity…

BYNASA

Apr 29, 2020

BYNASA

Apr 29, 2020

Listen to eerie audio of the first recorded ‘marsquake’

NASA’s Mars InSight lander has measured and recorded for the first time ever a likely “marsquake.” The faint seismic signal, detected by the lander’s Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS) instrument, was recorded on April 6, 201…

BYNASA

Apr 29, 2020

BYBusiness Insider

Apr 29, 2020

SpaceX just fired up its Mars spaceship prototype for the first time

With a deafening roar that rattled windows, SpaceX — the rocket company founded by Elon Musk — fired up its new Mars rocket-ship prototype for the first time April 3, 2019. The roughly 60-foot-tall stainless-steel rocket ship, called the …

BYBusiness Insider

Apr 29, 2020

BYNASA

Apr 29, 2020

These are the habitation prototypes for NASA’s ‘Moon-to-Mars’ mission

Over the next several months, NASA will conduct a series of ground tests inside five uniquely designed, full-size, deep space habitat prototypes. The mockups, constructed by five American companies, offer different perspectives on how astronauts wil…

BYNASA

Apr 29, 2020

BYNASA

Apr 29, 2020

The Mars close-ups of Opportunity’s last panorama are crazy

Over 29 days in spring 2018, NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity documented this 360-degree panorama from multiple images taken at what would become its final resting spot in Perseverance Valley. Located on the inner slope of the western rim …

BYNASA

Apr 29, 2020

BYNASA

Apr 29, 2020

NASA just pulled the plug on the Mars rover

One of the most successful and enduring feats of interplanetary exploration, NASA’s Opportunity rover mission is at an end after almost 15 years exploring the surface of Mars and helping lay the groundwork for NASA’s return to the Red Planet. …

BYNASA

Apr 29, 2020