Mars Missions News

  • President Obama's plan best mission for NASA (9 Feb 2010 02:50)

    ... some trepidation that I waited for the NASA budget to be unveiled last week. I ... year, President Barack Obama instructed the Augustine Commission to report on the likely prognosis for ... and our robotic presence not just to Mars but also to the outer reaches of ...

  • NASA will try again Monday to launch the space shuttle Endeavour after a one-day delay due to thick clouds. (9 Feb 2010 04:30)

    ... 10:07 p.m. ET. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. NASA has fueled the space shuttle Endeavour for ... anomaly that would force an emergency landing, mission managers said. "Disappointed by the scrub, but ... said. "I think they should be moon, Mars, asteroids." Endeavour's launch will mark NASA's first ...

  • A New Space Program (9 Feb 2010 05:56)

    ... Mr. Obama is instead calling on NASA to develop “game-changing” technologies to make long-distance ... has not identified a clear goal - Mars is our choice - or set even ... United States is not retiring from space exploration but rather is pushing toward the hardest ...

  • NASA is about to launch the mother of all Super Bowl pregame shows with the space shuttle Endeavour, which is poised to blast off before dawn Sunday morning. (9 Feb 2010 04:30)

    ... a week after President Barack Obama ordered NASA to scrap its current plan to replace ... the moon or to asteroids or Mars faster than the old path. Shuttle ... for Endeavour and is NASA's 130th shuttle mission since its reusable space planes began launching ...

  • End of the road for Mars rover (9 Feb 2010 06:39)

    ... Your handlers at NASA have striven mightily to free you, but ... to be ashamed of in this space exploration endeavor. The president's NASA budget proposal may ... achievements. Parachuted to opposite ends of the Mars equator in 2004, you two rovers were ...

  • Last night-time launch for space shuttle (9 Feb 2010 01:34)

    ... in time. There are just four more missions scheduled this year before the shuttles are ... mission comes at an agonising time for Nasa. A week ago, President Barack Obama ordered ... Nasa's boss, former astronaut Charles Bolden, favours Mars, but he, too, is waiting to hear ...

  • Sen. Nelson Seeks More For NASA From Obama (9 Feb 2010 13:12)

    ... Sen. Nelson Seeks More For NASA From Obama Posted: 7:26 am EST February ... Senator Nelson. Senator Nelson says increasing the space program's budget by $6 billion is a ... term goals for NASA, including trips to Mars that would lead to people staying there ...

  • Patten lectures to include life on Mars debate (9 Feb 2010 06:30)

    ... Opportunity, and the Search for Life on Mars on Thursday. The lectures, part of the ... life on Mars. Knoll will talk about NASA evidence of liquid water on Mars. He ...

  • Experts Say This Year's Super Bowl Ads Achieved Mission (9 Feb 2010 09:09)

    ... White and Abe Vigoda playing football for Mars' Snickers brand and Beyonce for low-price television ... copyrighted material may not be re-published without permission. Links are encouraged. ...

  • The Last Shuttle To Leave Earth at Night (9 Feb 2010 02:17)

    ... Space Center press site on Feb. 8, NASA officials beamed at the bit of bright ... Barack Obama plans to cancel the Constellation moon-to-Mars program, NASA must now walk a delicate ... of Twitter accounts promoting agency centers and missions. "We're going to keep doing this. It's ...

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  • Obama to Moon Base: Drop Dead! (9 Feb 2010 04:31)

    ... promised. We were amazed, even as kids!) NASA had grand plans under Kennedy and Johnson: ... space station and shuttle by the 1970s, Mars by the 1980s. Even SPSs (Solar Powered ... preparing to cancel the last three Apollo missions. The shuttle – NASA’s ambition for cheaper, ...

  • JSC chief 'anxious' about facility's future (9 Feb 2010 05:20)

    ... the release of President Barack Obama's proposed NASA budget last week, Mike Coats said the ... space center will have to find new missions besides the International Space Station to replace ... wholesale cancellation of Constellation — NASA's next-generation exploration program that entailed development of rockets to ...

  • Starlit Memories Lead Scientist Back to His Roots (9 Feb 2010 10:17)

    ... lunar surface long before the Apollo 11 mission verified their results. On a Mission or ... He was later a member of the Mars Pathfinder team, which helped develop and build ... Greece, Economou currently collaborates on three interplanetary NASA missions: * Spirit and Opportunity missions to ...

  • Obama's Right Stuff (9 Feb 2010 02:42)

    ... Americans back on the moon by 2020. NASA already has spent some $9 billion developing ... fresh, bolder approach, such as a manned mission to Mars. Returning to the moon looked too much ...

  • Endeavour delivers cupola (9 Feb 2010 07:57)

    ... the crew shortly before lift-off. The Endeavour mission's main goal is to deliver the massive ... with a multi-window cupola attached. Built for NASA by the European group Thales Alenia Space ... lunar base to launch manned missions to Mars. Constrained by soaring deficits, Obama submitted a ...

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