NASA considers moon mission for Mars-type rover

NASA announced four new contracts for commercial lunar landers for the agency’s moon plans, but dropped news that it’s toying ...

Cedar Park's Firefly Aerospace wins $13M NASA Mars contract

Cedar Park-based Firefly Aerospace in will build a heat-shielded aeroshell for NASA's 2028 SkyFall Mars helicopter mission.
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NASA bets on Blue Origin’s New Glenn for Mars mission

Blue Origin’s long-delayed New Glenn rocket now has a high-profile payload for its debut flight: NASA’s ESCAPADE mission to ...
Forbes

SpaceX Mars Mission Comes Under Fire From The World’s Top Mars Scholar

NASA's ex-Administrator told Congress the U.S. is in danger of losing the new space race to the Moon due to SpaceX's cascading delays in perfecting its Starship lunar lander. (Photo by Loren ...
IFLScience

Mars Missions Witnessed 7,500 Percent Increase In Radiation During 2024's Solar Superstorm

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

After 11 years at Mars, NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft went out with a whisper

NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft was in excellent shape when it disappeared behind Mars on December 6 of last year. The routine passage, called an occultation, was supposed to last less than an hour, but ...
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Milestones defining space exploration in 2024

In February 2024, a landmark achievement marked the first U.S. moon landing in over half a century. The Odysseus lunar lander ...
USA Today

6 spaceflights ahead in 2026, from NASA moon missions to SpaceX Starship

NASA plans to send four astronauts on a mission to circumnavigate the moon, the first human lunar mission in over 50 years. SpaceX is expected to debut a new version of its Starship megarocket and ...