NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used its dual-camera Mastcam-Z imager to capture this image of “Santa Cruz,” a hill within Jezero Crater, on April 29, 2021, the 68th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS Download a 3D Model
Update for 5:20 p.m. ET: NASA has scrubbed Monday’s sounding rocket launch due to high winds at the launch site. The next launch window opens Tuesday (May 11) at 8:05 p.m. EDT (0005 May 12 GMT). A small NASA sounding rocket
NEW YORK, May 2. /TASS/. Space X’s Crew Dragon manned spacecraft with the Crew-1 mission aboard has come back to Earth, successfully making an Atlantic splashdown off Florida’s coast, NASA reported. The Resilience spacecraft with four astronauts – NASA astronauts
They’ll splashdown in the darkness before dawn. Click here for more Space.com videos… NASA’s Mars helicopter Ingenuity will keep flying for an additional 30 days (at least), on an extended mission that will test the chopper’s ability to be a “scout,” the
NASA confirmed its Mars helicopter Ingenuity, the first aircraft to make a powered, controlled flight on another planet, is safe and in good health after it failed to takeoff for its fourth planned mission on Mars. Sent alongside NASA’s Perseverance
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter team will discuss plans for the rotorcraft’s remaining flight campaign during a virtual media briefing at 12:30 p.m. EDT (9:30 a.m. PDT) Friday, April 30. The helicopter has flown successfully three times and completed its mission
NASA has added a new rocket to its lineup of launch vehicles. The next-generation Vulcan Centaur rocket from the United Launch Alliance (ULA)will be added to NASA’s catalog of launchers, thanks to an agreement with the agency’s launch services program. The opportunity allows for
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin filed a protest with the Government Accountability Office against NASA on Monday, challenging the space agency’s award of a nearly $3 billion moon lander contract to Elon Musk’s SpaceX earlier this month. SpaceX, in a competition against Blue
The US space agency’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter has now made its third successful flight on the Red Planet. On Sunday, the little chopper rose to a height of 5m before speeding off laterally for 50m – half the length of
The second operational SpaceX crew mission arrived at the International Space Station early on Saturday morning, carrying four astronauts for a six month stay in space. SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft ‘Endeavour,’ which launched on a Falcon 9 rocket the day before,