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What does it take for a recalcitrant physicist to demand a camera for a spacecraft, against doubters and technical obstacles?
NASA’s Perseverance rover has already captured the world’s attention with its high-definition video of parachute deployment ...
BEIJING -- China's first Mars sample-return mission, Tianwen 3, is scheduled for launch around 2028, with the goal of ...
Harmful cuts” jeopardize the agency’s mission, more than 280 current and former personnel contend in a scathing dissent.
Interestingly, Tikhonravov’s dream of a Soviet mission to Mars was based on former Nazi rocket scientist-turned-American rocket scientist, Wernher Von Braun, who had his own “ Mars Project ” that ...
It is true that crewed missions to the moon are expensive, difficult, and dangerous. And we now have a long history going back decades of reliable, dependable, capable robotic exploration, including ...
Thirty secondary students selected for the Young Astronaut Training Camp 2025 will visit Beijing, Jiuquan and Xi'an during a nine-day training programme from July 25 to August 2.
British astronaut Tim Peake will blast off across the country this autumn – and he’ll be stopping off in Northampton to share ...
"We are happy to confirm that we have a parachute design that can work on Mars — an ambitious system with the largest ...
The European Space Agency (ESA) recently tested a parachute system designed to safely deliver the 310-kg Rosalind Franklin ...
A draft executive order viewed by ProPublica directs the secretary of transportation to “use all available authorities to ...