Mission Fantastic to Mars
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At times during the Mars rover mission, the tension was palpable even as far away as NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C. This was especially true about 18 months before launch, when the airbags and parachutes that cushioned the landers began tearing apart during testing. This is part 3 in our series.
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NASA - At the recent Viking thirtieth anniversary celebration, Noel Hinners championed what could be the next great challenge for planetary science: a Mars Sample Return mission.
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Jet Propulsion Lab -- As NASA's Spirit and Opportunity resumed reliable contact with Earth, after a period when Mars passed nearly behind the sun, the space agency extended funding for an additional six months of rover operations, as long as they keep working.     Both rovers successfully completed their primary three-month missions on the surface of Mars in April and have already added about five months of bonus exploration during the first extension of their missions...
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NASA has announced that its Mars robots Spirit and Opportunity would work six months longer than expected. NASA made the decision after re-establishing radio contact with the twin rovers, which had spent 12 days behind the Sun.
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ITHACA -- Getting to drive two rovers on Mars all the way from Ithaca is a dream come true for Cornell University&#39;s Steven Squyres.
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Anyone who    wants to follow in the shoes of Burt Rutan and win the next big space prize    will have to build a spacecraft capable of taking a crew of no fewer than five    people to an altitude of 400 kilometers and complete two orbits of the Earth    at that altitude. Then they have to repeat that accomplishment within 60 days.
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The European Space Agency's  Rosetta probe swooped around the back of Mars early on Sunday,  completing a key maneuver in its 10-year mission to meet a  distant comet.
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US space shuttle Discovery blasted off successfully Tuesday on an ambitious, complex mission to the International Space Station, key to future manned flights to Mars.
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Sending people to the moon and Mars is no longer just President Bush&#39;s vision. It&#39;s officially the United States&#39; new mission in space.
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By Alicia Chang, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Feb. 2--LOS ANGELES -- Scientists are scrambling to find an alternative landing site for a long-armed robot set to launch this summer on a mission to dig into Mars' icy north pole to search for signs of primitive life.
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If peace on earth is no longer feasible by the end of the century, you may have another option: Move to Mars! Yesterday, the head of NASA&#39;s surface exploration mission said if we can find water on the red
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NASA&#39;s Spirit and Opportunity have been exploring Mars about three times as long as originally scheduled. The more they look, the more evidence of past liquid water on Mars these robots discover.
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LOS ANGELES Oct. 7, 2004 - NASA&#39;s Mars rovers don&#39;t seem to be wearing out, so mission planners have begun to think more boldly including a plan to let one climb up a steep slope from a crater it has been exploring to set out across a plain.
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DENVER, Colo. -- The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is one giant spacecraft, built to take&nbsp;unprecedented photos of the red planet. Engineers are in test time mode here at Lockheed Martin Space Systems, builder of the spacecraft, as the countdown ticks down&nbsp;for the probe's summer launch.
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The discovery by Nasa&#39;s robotic rovers of a watery past on Mars has topped a an eagerly awaited list of the 10 key scientific advances of 2004.
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Data from Nasa's Mars rover Opportunity shows its unique landing site is a prime spot for a return mission to look for life, scientists say.
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By Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Dec. 7--WITH MAJOR ADVANCES in robotic technology in recent years, NASA has scored many significant triumphs with uncrewed missions to Mars, Saturn and beyond as well as in Earth orbit.