CAPE CANAVERAL—NASA on Monday released the first high-quality video of a spacecraft landing on Mars, a three-minute trailer showing the enormous orange and white parachute hurtling open and the red dust kicking up as rocket engines lowered the rover to the surface. The footage was so good—and the images so breathtaking—that members of the rover…
NASA’s Astrobiology Rover Perseverance Makes Historic Mars Landing
LOS ANGELES—NASA’s science rover Perseverance, the most advanced astrobiology laboratory ever sent to another world, streaked through the Martian atmosphere on Thursday and landed safely on the floor of a vast crater, its first stop on a search for traces of ancient microbial life on the Red Planet. Mission managers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory…
NASA Rover Streaks Toward a Landing on Mars
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—A NASA rover streaked toward a landing on Mars on Thursday in the riskiest step yet in an epic quest to bring back rocks that could answer whether life ever existed on the red planet. Ground controllers at the space agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, settled in nervously for the descent…
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The Nation Speaks (Feb. 20): Can America Win Space?; Black History Month in 2021; US Critical Thinking Crisis
In this episode of The Nation Speaks, we explore the final frontier—space. Joining us is Brandon Weichert, geopolitical analyst and author of “Winning Space: How America Remains a Superpower”; Dale Skran, CEO of the National Space Society; and Shelli Brunswick, COO of Space Foundation. Dr. Carol Swain gives us her insight on Black History Month…