Lunar rover flies, then falls
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Armadillo Aerospace is the lone competitor in NASA's $2 million Lunar Lander Challenge and it almost won some money Saturday.
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Stunned British and American scientists watched a seven-year dream fall to Earth yesterday at 150mph, potentially smashing the fruits of a $250m mission.
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The launch of the nation's first lunar orbiter signals the beginning of China's long-range goal of sending a rover to the moon's surface and returning it to Earth.
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Since September 8th and 9th, the twin Mars rovers have been taking a well-deserved break, while the Sun-Earth line clears again for communication directly to Mars. While this conjunction may temporarily halt their wheels in the sand, other science tasks have kicked off under autonomous control.
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As NASA (news - web sites)&#39;s Mars rovers keep rolling past all expectations of their useful lives, scientists have a happy mystery: For some reason one
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DUGWAY PROVING GROUND, Utah - A daring plan to have helicopters snag a space capsule as it plunged toward Earth went awry Wednesday when its parachutes failed to open and it slammed into the desert floor.    The catastrophic descent left the Genesis capsule buried halfway underground and exposed its collection of solar atoms to contamination...
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NASA&#39;s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has returned this view of its discard heat shield, which crashed to the planet&#39;s surface during the craft&#39;s descent and landing last January.
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China launched its first lunar probe Wednesday, the first step in an ambitious 10-year plan to send a rover to the moon and return it to earth
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This is the moment that the painstaking research from a three-year, $250m (Â£140m) mission in space crashed headlong to Earth. The cargo - weighing only as much as a few
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A steering problem disabled the Mars Rover Spirit Oct. 1, NASA officials said yesterday. The robot has not moved since.
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The UK-led Beagle 2 team maintains its Mars lander was probably lost because of unexpected atmospheric conditions during entry.
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Two months after surviving a giant dust storm, one of NASA's robotic rovers on Mars began a risky drive Tuesday into a crater blasted open by a meteor eons ago.
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DUGWAY PROVING GROUND, Utah - Scientists with tweezers picked through the twisted wreckage of a space capsule that crash-landed on Earth, hoping that microscopic clues to the evolution of the solar system weren't completely lost in Utah's salt flats.    NASA engineers were stunned Wednesday when neither parachute deployed aboard the Genesis capsule and the craft plummeted to the ground at 193 mph, breaking open like a clamshell and exposing its collection of solar atoms to contamination...
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By DAVID McHUGH  DARMSTADT, Germany - The SMART-1 spacecraft sent back an unexpectedly rich data haul that could shed light on the moon's origins and evolution before its three-year voyage ended in a planned crash on the lunar surface, European space scientists said Monday.
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Almost by accident, NASA&#39;s Mars rover Opportunity has found a rock that may point to a second water event in the red planet&#39;s past.
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BERLIN -- Europe's first mission to the moon got a scare, but ground controllers made a last-minute course correction early Saturday that kept the craft from hitting the surface earlier than planned.
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UK science becomes an unexpected victim of the Rover collapse as funds used to soften the impact of the failure are clawed back from research.