NASA develops 3D Mars base simulator in collaboration with game studio
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) collaborated with independent game studio Blackbird Interactive (BBI) to create an incredibly realistic interactive 3D…
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Mars
NASA’s InSight hopes to detect “marsquakes”, deploys seismometer on Mars
In another historic feat for NASA's InSight lander, a seismometer has now been deployed on Mars, marking the first time…
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Giant Martian crater filled with ice and snow captured in festive holiday photos
The European Space Agency's red planet orbiter Mars Express has captured a festive photo of the snowy Korolev crater just in…
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First sounds of wind on Mars captured by NASA’s Insight Lander
This fresh in from the Elysium Planitia of Mars: the sound of wind from an alien world. On its 10th…
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NASA opens $2.6 billion in contract services for Moon to Mars missions
"We are going," is an important part NASA's motto for its return to the Moon, and to get there, the…
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NASA’s Mars InSight mission opens doors to hyper-affordable satellite industry
On November 26, 2018, NASA's InSight lander arrived at Mars, our neighboring red planet, after a nearly seven month journey…
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NASA’s Mars InSight shares first images from the Red Planet
Confirmed today at 2:53 pm EST, NASA's InSight lander safely touched down on the surface of Mars. After six years…
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NASA’s InSight lander prepares for Mars arrival on Monday, live stream 3pm ET (7pm UTC)
On Monday, NASA's InSight lander will complete the final phase of its journey to Mars by touching down on the…
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NASA to livestream first Mars landing in six years on November 26 with InSight lander
On Monday, November 26, 2018, a Mars lander will arrive on the surface of the red planet for the first…
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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk lays out ambitious deadline for BFR-built Mars Base Alpha
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has announced what may be the company's most ambitious deadline yet, stating that he believes a…
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SpaceX President talks BFR and Mars exploration in laid-back Madrid Q&A session
Speaking at a Q&A session hosted for a Madrid university's Master's of Business Administration students, SpaceX President and COO Gwynne…
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SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell expects BFR spaceship hop tests in late 2019
Speaking on a panel titled "Future of Space" at a 2018 conference for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA)…
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NASA may prematurely kill long-lived Mars rover with arbitrary wake-up deadline
In a decision with no obvious empirical explanation, JPL's Opportunity Mars rover project manager John Callas was quoted in an…
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SpaceX wants to use the first Mars-bound BFR spaceships as Martian habitats
Speaking at the 2018 Mars Society Convention, SpaceX's Principal Mars Development Engineer Paul Wooster briefly presented on the company's BFR…
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SpaceX’s first private Mars conference is focusing on the ‘how’ of living on the red planet
Earlier this week, SpaceX kicked off an under-the-radar conference focused on the technological and strategic requirements for building and sustaining…
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NASA and SpaceX probably can’t terraform Mars but that doesn’t matter
In recent weeks, a great deal of exaggerative noise has been spread wide about the supposed impossibility of making the…
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SpaceX is searching for BFR landing sites for early 2020s Mars missions
SpaceX Principal Mars Development Engineer Paul Wooster gave a surprise talk at a February 2018 meeting of the Mars Exploration Program Analysis…
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Mars rover continues sleep as NASA captures new imagery of planet-engulfing dust storm
While the massive dust storm currently enveloping Mars continues to force the 14-year-old Opportunity Rover into silence, NASA's other Martian…
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SpaceX’s Crew Dragon preps for debut as race to return astronauts to US craft nears final stages
After spending two weeks testing in a specialized NASA-run facility, SpaceX's first flightworthy Crew Dragon spacecraft was shipped from Ohio…
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SpaceX Mars rocket test site receives first huge rocket propellant storage tank
SpaceX has delivered one of the first undeniably rocketry-related pieces of hardware to its prospective Boca Chica test and launch…
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