Mars
The red planet awaits.
Mars Helicopter Team’s Final Gathering for Ingenuity Data Downlink
B-roll for media and public use. On April 16, 2024, NASA’s Ingenuity team gathered in mission control at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to celebrate the Mars helicopter’s accomplishme...
NASA Minute: Sept. 12, 2025
In this week’s NASA Minute a resupply mission, flying your name around the Moon, and potential life on mars.
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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...
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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? ...
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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...
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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...
Technology Drives Exploration┃Go Forward
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 on This Week @NASA – February12, 2021
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!
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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...
Next Steps for Ingenuity Helicopter
Press briefing for Mars Helicopter Ingenuity. What are the plans going forward for the rotorcraft, as well as what science will be performed in the near future by the Perseverance rover.
President Biden Calls JPL to Congratulate the Perseverance Mars Rover Team
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...
Rocket Ranch Podcast-Moogega Cooper
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 ...
NASA 2021 Let's Go to the Moon
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 Chris Williams and Soyuz MS-28 Crew Close Hatch Ahead of Soyuz Undocking – Sunday, July 26, 2026
NASA astronaut Chris Williams and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev closed the hatch of their Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft on July 25 ahead of their undocking and landing July 2...
Soyuz MS-24 Space Station Undocking - Friday, April 5, 2024
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 Returns Home to Earth Part 1 - April 6, 2024
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 Returns Home to Earth Part 3 - April 6, 2024
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 Soyuz MS-26 Re-entry and Landing – Saturday, April 19, 2025
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 Returns Home to Earth Part 2 - April 4, 2024
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 Soyuz MS-26 Space Station Farewells & Hatch Closing - April 19, 2025
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 ...
Soyuz MS-24 Landing Day Highlights - Saturday, April 6, 2024
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 Soyuz MS-26 Undocking - Saturday, April 19, 2025
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...
Soyuz MS-24 Space Station Farewells and Hatch Closing - Friday, April 5, 2024
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...
Booster Test for Future Space Launch System Flights 4K
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...
Booster Test for Future Space Launch System Flights
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...
Orion Artemis I Crew and Service Module Return to Kennedy - Arrival, Offload, Transport to O&C
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 ...
Orion Artemis I Crew and Service Module Return to Kennedy - Arrival
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...
Artemis I Leaders Discuss Mission Details
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...
Artemis II: For All Humanity
Artemis II marked the first astronaut journey to the Moon in over 50 years — a 10‑day test flight that carried NASA’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and CSA astronaut Jeremy H...
Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1 Lunar Landing News Conference – Sunday, March 2, 2025
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...