In 1976, NASA's Viking Project sent the first images from a Mars lander back to Earth; its landing-site lessons influenced later U.S. Mars missions

In 1976, Viking 1's successful touchdown on Mars set in motion a vital new strategy for choosing landing sites. Following safety concerns that led to a last-minute location change, NASA established a ...
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NASA selects Blue Origin to build next-gen Mars Communications Network

NASA has awarded Blue Origin a contract worth up to approximately $700m to develop a next-generation telecommunications ...
The Guardian

Nasa to test nuclear rockets that could fly astronauts to Mars in record time

Project, in concert with US government agency Darpa, aims to develop pioneering propulsion system for space travel Nasa has unveiled plans to test nuclear-powered rockets that would fly astronauts to ...

NASA awards $700 million Mars contract to Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin has landed a $700 million NASA contract that could play a major role in the future of Mars ...
Daily Express

SPACE BREAKTHROUGH: NASA and Google partner for MAJOR Mars exploration test

A manned mission to Mars has long been a staple of science fiction. But such ambitions are now becoming a reality thanks to incredible technological advances made in recent years. And now NASA has ...
Daily Express

Mars announcement: NASA want to DRILL into Mars to see where mysterious water comes from

NASA wants to get a team of astro biologists and planetary scientists to Mars to drill into its surface to see where "significant volumes" of water are coming from and if there is evidence of life ...
BBC

Nasa: 'New plan needed to return rocks from Mars'

Returning Mars samples is an immensely complex undertaking that will take years The quest to return rock materials from Mars to Earth to see if they contain traces of past life is going to go through ...
The Guardian

Nasa confirms Mars rover Opportunity is dead

Robot the size of a golf buggy has sent data to Earth for 15 years but fell silent eight months ago and Nasa says mission is complete Nasa declared the 15-year mission of the veteran Mars rover ...
Scientific American magazine

NASA’s Mars mission MAVEN is lost forever

NASA has officially lost a decade-old Mars orbiter that performed vital scientific and communications work at the Red Planet. The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission, which launched ...

AV Awarded Contract for Three Autonomous Helicopters in Support of NASA’s SkyFall Mission to Mars

AeroVironment, Inc. ("AV"), a global defense technology leader, today announced that its MacCready Works advanced solutions team has been awarded a contract for the co-design and co-manufacture of ...
BBC

As it happened: Nasa rover launches on Mars life mission

We hope you enjoyed the live coverage of the launch of Nasa's rover Perseverance. The robot is now on its seven-month journey to the Red Planet. In February next year, it should land in Jezero Crater ...

Mars rovers give scientists a ground-level view of the red planet – peek inside their NASA control room

Lights blink on as I enter the Rover Operations Center at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, at 7:30 a.m. I’m the first to arrive, even though I already feel late. Sometime ...