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“Today we stand at the threshold of another monumental moment in exploration: Sample collection at Mars. As we celebrate the heroes of Apollo 11 today, future generations may well recognize the women and men of Perseverance — not only for what they will achieve 100 million miles from home, but for what they were able to accomplish on this world on the road to launch.” … [Read more...] about Final month of preparations before the launch of NASA’s Perseverance rover

“What’s unique about this discovery is that it provides us with a new pathway that we didn’t think existed for water to escape the Martian environment,” said Mehdi Benna, a Goddard planetary scientist and co-investigator of MAVEN’s NGIMS instrument. “It will fundamentally change our estimates of how fast water is escaping today and how fast it escaped in the past.” … [Read more...] about Mars is losing water due to heat and dust storms, NASA finds

Now, NASA has its own method for transporting astronauts into space. This also marks the first operational mission of NASA’s Commercial Crew program, which invites private companies to partner with NASA to develop and manage human transportation spacecraft. Another company, Boeing, is also working on a crew capsule, the Starliner, which is expected to perform its second uncrewed orbital test flight within the next few months. … [Read more...] about NASA and SpaceX successfully launch first operational Crew Dragon mission

Speaking last week about NASA’s renewed ability to launch and land space crews domestically for the first time since the Space Shuttle program ended in 2011, Crew Dragon commander Michael Hopkins said he and his fellow astronauts were “truly honored” to be “starting this new era where we’re going to rotate crews to the International Space Station from American soil with our commercial partners, like SpaceX.” … [Read more...] about NASA video relives this week’s spectacular SpaceX mission to the ISS

In the near term, for example, production and flight certification for its moon-bound SLS rocket system still need to be completed, as well as engine and core stage testing. This part of the project has suffered delays in part due to the coronavirus pandemic. … [Read more...] about NASA report casts doubt on achieving moon landing by 2024