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NASA’s Mars copter flight could happen as soon as Monday
Apr 18, 2021NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter could make its first flight over the Red Planet as soon as Monday, the US space agency reported, following a delay of more than a week due to a possible technical issue.... -
The largest asteroid to pass by Earth on March 21
Mar 13, 2021The largest asteroid to pass by Earth this year will approach within some 1.25 million miles (two million kilometers) of our planet on March 21, NASA said on Thursday. The US space agency said it will... -
NASA intends to fly a helicopter on Mars for the first time
Feb 16, 2021More than a century after the first powered flight on Earth, NASA intends to prove it’s possible to replicate the feat on another world. Transported aboard the Mars 2020 spacecraft that arrives at the Red Planet... -
Nokia and NASA to install 4G network on Moon
Oct 21, 2020With competition among Earth’s telecoms providers as fierce as ever, equipment maker Nokia announced its expansion into a new market on Monday, winning a deal to install the first cellular network on the Moon. The Finnish... -
NASA reveals plan to return astronauts to the Moon in 2024
Sep 22, 2020NASA unveiled its latest plan yesterday to send astronauts back to the Moon in 2024, and estimated the cost of meeting that deadline at $28 billion, $16 billion of which would be spent on the lunar... -
NASA to launch its first crewed mission from US soil in almost 10 years
Apr 19, 2020Nasa has announced that next month it will launch its first crewed mission from US soil in almost 10 years. The rocket and the spacecraft it is carrying are due to take off from Florida’s Kennedy... -
The fall-out from the coronavirus crisis felt in space
Mar 21, 2020The fall-out from the coronavirus crisis is even being felt in space. Rising infection rates near key technical centres in Louisiana and Mississippi mean the US space agency is suspending production and testing of its Moon... -
NASA’s Mars 2020 rover successfully passed its first driving test
Dec 19, 2019NASA’s Mars 2020 rover has successfully passed its first driving test, according to a release of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, on Wednesday. A preliminary assessment of the rover’s activities on Tuesday showed... -
NASA to open up the International Space Station for tourism
Jun 9, 2019NASA said on Friday it will open up the International Space Station for tourism and other business ventures as of next year, as it seeks to financially disengage from the orbiting research lab, reports BSS. “NASA... -
People on Mars by 2033?
May 19, 2019On December 11, 2017, US President Donald Trump signed a directive ordering NASA to prepare to return astronauts to the Moon “followed by human missions to Mars and other destinations.” The dates fixed by the space...
