The red planet awaits.
In April 2021, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter became the first spacecraft to achieve powered, controlled flight on another world. With over 70 successful flights and more than 128 minutes of fl...
Pawan from Sharjah asked us, what type of orbit will MRO be sent into once it reaches the Red Planet? Also, will it be used as a link by the MER-A and MER-B for sending data? Most spacecraft tha...
Pawan from Sharjah: The spectrometers on MER-A and B split the visible light into many colors which identify minerals. How is the spectrometer on the MRO different from the ones on the two rovers? ...
TIFFANY NAIL: So what happens just after liftoff? Just how does the MRO spacecraft get from Earth to Mars? Dr. Richard Zurek, MRO project scientist, takes a closer look with this fascinating animat...
Our next question comes from Junichi from Niihama City. Since the astronomy -- I'm sorry, since the atmosphere of Mars is not very dense, is MRO going to observe the surface of Mars in high-resolut...
NASA is going to the Moon and on to Mars, in a measured, sustainable way. Working with U.S. companies and international partners, NASA will push the boundaries of human exploration forward to the M...
Tracking our next Mars landing, the science on the next station resupply mission, and the newest space station flight directors … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA!
NASA Launch Commentator George Diller begins coverage of the Phoenix Mars Lander mission. The Phoenix spacecraft will begin its journey toward Mars aboard a Delta II rocket. When it arrives, the la...
Final preparations for NASA's next mission to Mars have been completed at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission is scheduled to liftoff from Cape Canaveral in August 2005 aboard an Atla...
HOST: Hello and welcome to NASA Direct's prelaunch webcast for the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter mission, the next step in our exploration of the Red Planet. I'm your host, Tiffany Nail. During today...
On March 4, 2021, President Biden video called NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to congratulate the mission team for the successful landing of the Perseverance Mars rover. The president spoke with...
After a 300 million-mile journey through space, the Mars Perseverance rover is ready to begin the most challenging part of the trip: landing on the Red Planet. If successful, it will embark on the ...
Sending the first Artemis mission to the Moon in preparation for human missions, landing a new rover on Mars, and launching the James Webb Space Telescope into space, expanding our ability to see d...
NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and Belarus spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya closed the hatch of the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft on April 6 ahead of their l...
NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and Belarus spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya closed the hatch of the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft on April 6 ahead of their l...
NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and Belarus spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya closed the hatch of the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft on April 6 ahead of their l...
NASA astronaut Don Pettit and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner closed the hatch of the Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft on April 19 ahead of their landing later that day. Following hatch ...
NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and Belarus spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya closed the hatch of the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft on April 6 ahead of their l...
NASA astronaut Don Pettit and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner closed the hatch of the Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft on April 19 ahead of their landing later that day. Following hatch ...
NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and Belarus spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya closed the hatch of the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft on April 6 ahead of their l...
NASA astronaut Don Pettit and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner closed the hatch of the Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft on April 19 ahead of their landing later that day. Following hatch...
NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and Belarus spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya closed the hatch of the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft on April 6 ahead of their l...
Watch this video to see the first solid rocket booster test for Space Launch System (SLS) missions beyond Artemis III during a two-minute hot fire test, Wednesday, September 2, 2020, at the T-97 N...
Watch this video to see the first solid rocket booster test for Space Launch System (SLS) missions beyond Artemis III during a two-minute hot fire test, Wednesday, September 2, 2020, at the T-97 N...
NASA’s Super Guppy aircraft, carrying the Orion spacecraft, lands at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch and Landing Facility runway in Florida on March 25, 2020. Orion has returned to Kennedy after ...
NASA’s Super Guppy aircraft, carrying the Orion spacecraft, lands at the Launch and Landing Facility runway at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on March 25, 2020. Orion has returned to Kennedy aft...
NASA Artemis leadership participated in a media briefing on Friday, Aug. 5, at NASA’s Johnson Space Center to provide detailed information on the Artemis I mission timeline and spacecraft operati...
NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative sent 10 science and technology payloads to the Moon with Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1. Following the robotic Moon landing, NASA a...
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1, carrying 10 NASA science and technology instruments, successfully landed at 3:34 a.m. EST on Mar. 2, near a volcanic feature called Mons Latreille within...
After landing on Runway 15 of the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the STS-123 astronauts exited Endeavour and took a look at the shuttle that had carried them sa...