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Watch a live stream of today’s SpaceX launch in Texas at the top of the blog ... with multiple launches and landings a day in his mission to colonise Mars. How Elon Musk became a space superpower.
SpaceX is set to launch its Starship craft on Thursday, 16 January, after weather delayed its critical test of the world’s biggest rocket.. The 123-metre-tall rocket, which Elon Musk hopes to ...
Watch live as a Nasa spacecraft returns to Earth with the largest asteroid sample in history on Sunday 24 September. After a seven-year, four-billion-mile journey across space, the ambitious NASA ...
Artist's rendering of NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiting Mars. The following table is a list of Mars orbiters, consisting of space probes which were launched from Earth and are currently orbiting Mars. As of August 2023, there have been 18 spacecraft missions operating in Mars' orbit, 7 of which are currently active.
Ingenuity, nicknamed Ginny, is an autonomous NASA helicopter that operated on Mars from 2021 to 2024 as part of the Mars 2020 mission. Ingenuity made its first flight on 19 April 2021, demonstrating that flight is possible in the extremely thin atmosphere of Mars, and becoming the first aircraft to conduct a powered and controlled extra-terrestrial flight.
Mars Express is a space exploration mission being conducted by the European Space Agency (ESA). The Mars Express mission is exploring the planet Mars, and is the first planetary mission attempted by the agency. [2] "Express" originally referred to the speed and efficiency with which the spacecraft was designed and built. [3]
Watch Boeing's Starliner spacecraft undock from the International Space Station and begin its return to Earth on Friday evening. The spacescraft is returning uncrewed, leaving behind the two NASA ...
As early as 2007, Elon Musk publicly stated a personal goal of eventually enabling human exploration and settlement of Mars. [5] Subsequently, SpaceX has stated its goal is to colonize Mars to ensure the long-term survival of the human species, [6] proposing since the 2000s and early 2010s different concepts for reaching Mars, including space tugs.