For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – Just an hour after the dramatic and safe touchdown of the Perseverance Mars Rover on Feb. 18 President Biden called acting NASA Administrator Steve Jurczyk at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California to offer his congratulates and support for the mission team and the agency. President Biden thus continues to show very
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – In a harbinger of many great things to come NASA’s nuclear powered Perseverance rover beamed back a truly beyond spectacular first of its kind selfie image showing her dangling in midair from the sky crane descent stage on three nylon tethers just about six feet (2 m) above the floor of Jezero
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover is ready for touchdown now as the most powerful and sophisticated robot ever dispatched from Earth and at the most daring, difficult and scientifically rewarding landing site ever attempted by the agency on the surface of the Red Planet at Jezero crater – that simultaneously begins the first
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – China’s first ever mission to reach Mars safely and successfully arrived in orbit around the Red Planet early this morning, Wednesday, Feb. 10, after a seven-month long interplanetary journey and marks the second leg of the arrival of an international fleet of spaceships dispatched from Earth that started less than 24 hours
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – The Arab World’s history making first interplanetary mission to Mars – the United Arab Emirates Hope Probe – successfully achieved orbit today, Tuesday, Feb. 9, at 10:57 a.m. ET (19:57 UAE time, 1557 GMT),” after a seven month journey bound for the Red Planet and designed to study the planets weather and climate
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – The ‘7 Minutes of Terror’ is approaching fast for NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission with touchdown on the surface of the Red Planet at Jezero crater and starting a ground breaking astrobiology mission in search of ancient life now just under 3 weeks away on Feb 18. Perseverance was less than
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION/KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – Its been a busy start for NASA’s $2.7 Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission to the Red Planet with a duo of major activities accomplished since blasting off from the Florida Space Coast on July 30. One week into its seven-month interplanetary journey to Mars NASA’s Ingenuity Mars