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After six months on Mars, NASA’s tiny copter is still flying high
It was only supposed to fly five times. And yet NASA's helicopter on Mars, Ingenuity, has completed 12 flights and it isn't ready to retire.
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Given its stunning and unexpected success, the U.S. space agency has extended Ingenuity's mission indefinitely.
On the threshold of a new era of discovery - NASA announced plans for Mars
The collection of samples, which NASA marked as a turning point, will begin in the next two weeks. "We are on the threshold of a new era of planetary science and discovery", said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for science at NASA Headquarters.
NASA's Ingenuity Helicopter Prepares for First Flight on Mars
As exciting as the entire Perseverance mission to Mars is, one of the events most looked forward to by us Earthlings must be the first flight of Ingenuity. After conducting numerous checks and double-checks, the Perseverance team has set April 8 as the date on which they hope to attempt the first controlled powered flight on another planet.
Planetary pact: China and Russia to launch lunar space station
Russia and China unveiled plans on March 9 for a joint lunar space station, as Moscow seeks to recapture the glory of its space pioneering days of Soviet times, and Beijing gears up its own extraterrestrial ambitions.
Next stop Mars: 3 spacecraft arriving in quick succession
After hurtling hundreds of millions of miles through space since last summer, three robotic explorers are ready to hit the brakes at Mars.
The stakes, and anxiety, are sky high.