Dream of human mission to Mars is achievable, say experts
Agence France-Presse | Sunday May 5, 2013
NASA and private sector experts now agree that a man or woman could be sent on a mission to Mars over the next 20 years, despite huge challenges.
NASA unveils plan to catch asteroid as step to Mars flight
Reuters | Thursday April 11, 2013
President Barack Obama wants NASA to start work on finding a small asteroid that could be shifted into an orbit near the moon and used by astronauts as a stepping-stone for an eventual mission to Mars, agency officials said on Wednesday.
India, US agree on future cooperation in Moon, Mars missions
Press Trust of India | Saturday March 23, 2013
India and the US have agreed to cooperate on future missions to the Moon and Mars after successful collaboration in Chandrayaan-1 lunar mission.
Nicola Clark, The New York Times | Saturday March 9, 2013
As Wernher von Braun, the rocket scientist, used to say, the most overwhelming obstacle to exploring the cosmos isn't gravity. It's the paperwork.
Man and woman, preferably married, wanted for expedition to Mars
Reuters | Thursday February 28, 2013
A nonprofit foundation wants to recruit a man and a woman - possibly a married couple - for a bare-bones, 501-day journey to Mars and back that would start in less than five years, project organizers said on Wednesday.
NASA aims to launch Mars rover twin in 2020
Reuters | Wednesday December 5, 2012
NASA plans to follow up its Mars rover Curiosity mission with a duplicate rover that could collect and store samples for return to Earth.
NASA aims to launch Mars rover twin in 2020
Reuters | Wednesday December 5, 2012
NASA plans to follow up its Mars rover Curiosity mission with a duplicate rover that could collect and store samples for return to Earth, the agency's lead scientist said on Tuesday.
Mars rover Curiosity finds signs of ancient stream
Associated Press | Friday September 28, 2012
The NASA rover Curiosity has beamed back pictures of bedrock that suggest a fast-moving stream, possibly waist-deep, once flowed on Mars - a find that the mission's chief scientist called exciting.
Mars rover to launch first rock study
Agence France-Presse | Thursday September 20, 2012
The science team plans to have Curiosity pause for a few days in order to perform the mission's first "contact science" by using instruments on the vehicle's robot arm to photograph and analyze a pyramid shaped rock.
NASA's Mars rover ready to 'drive, drive, drive'
Reuters | Thursday September 13, 2012
The Mars rover Curiosity was due to wrap up an exhaustive, weeks-long instrument check on Thursday, clearing the way for its first lengthy drive to determine whether the Red Planet has ever been hospitable to life, NASA officials said.
Mars rover Curiosity aces first test drive
Reuters | Thursday August 23, 2012
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity took a 16-minute drive on Wednesday, its first since it reached the Red Planet, to search for habitats that could have supported microbial life. The $2.5-billion, two-year mission, NASA's first astrobiology initiative sinc...
Mars rover Curiosity prepares for test drive
Associated Press | Wednesday August 22, 2012
Scientists were preparing to send Curiosity on its first test drive over the billion-year-old rocks of Mars and said a busted wind sensor wouldn't jeopardise its mission of determining whether life could exist there.
Curiosity sends back flood of new views from Mars
Associated Press | Wednesday August 8, 2012
It opened a window into the trip itself, from video footage of the landing to a photo of the rover hanging by a parachute to a shot of discarded spacecraft hardware strewn across the surface. And the best views - of Mars and the journey there - are y...
NASA mission gives a peek of rover's Mars journey
Associated Press | Monday April 15, 2013
NASA's latest adventure to Mars has given the world more than just glimpses of a new alien landscape.
NASA's Curiosity rover sends colour photo from Mars
Associated Press | Tuesday August 7, 2012
NASA's Curiosity rover has beamed back its first colour photo from the ancient crater where it landed on Mars and a video showing the last two and a half minutes of its white-knuckle dive through the Martian atmosphere, a sneak peek of a spacecraft l...
