In an era of reusable rockets and near-daily access to space, NASA is still paying more than it did 30 years ago to launch ...

Right now, the lander ... to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration. Washington: National Geographic. Belfiore M (2007) Rocketeers: How a visionary band of business leaders, engineers and pilots is ...

For others, they only tried melting down polar ... the Mars Climate Sounder, which has collected data on carbon dioxide snow — aka dry ice — as it fell to the ground. The Phoenix lander ...

The British government will fund the lander via the UK Space Agency. “Getting the Rosalind Franklin rover onto the surface of Mars is a huge international challenge and the culmination of ...

The Japanese space agency JAXA is studying use of inflatable aeroshells to enable landings of small Mars rovers ... Phobos with those from the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) spacecraft ...

Houston’s Intuitive Machines and Cedar Park’s Firefly Aerospace have each launched moon landers with NASA’s Commercial Lunar ...

"Curiosity was captured in what is believed to be the first orbital image of the rover mid-drive across the Red Planet." ...

The lander will head straight for the Martian arctic and the broad belt of permafrost surrounding the planet’s north polar cap. Next May, if all goes according to plan, Mars Phoenix will bore ...