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Watch live: NASA updates on Curiosity’s first test drive on Mars
NASA held a press conference on Wednesday to update the public on the Mars Curiosity rover mission, which takes its first test drive on the Red Planet today. The rover has 16 drivers, based in NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Jeff Biesiadecki, one of NASA’s drivers, told Space.com…
NASA’s Mars rover set for first ‘test drive’
LOS ANGELES — A little more than two weeks after its arrival on Mars, NASA’s Curiosity rover will on Wednesday make its first “test drive” before setting off on its Red Planet mission, the US space agency said. The $2.5 billion rover, which landed on Mars on August 6, has…
NASA wants to measure ‘Marsquakes’
Just 10 days after NASA’s Curiosity rover sent back its first color photos of the Martian landscape, the US space agency said it wants in 2016 to take a better look at what’s happening beneath the Red Planet’s surface. “Does Mars have fault lines like the Earth does? How extensive…
‘We’re NASA and We Know It’ video spoofs JPL Mars team
'We're NASA and We Know It' video spoofs JPL Mars team. How cool is that? (via The Christian Science Monitor) The folks at JPL have arrived. No, not just because the NASA center’s best and brightest put the Mars rover Curiosity flawlessly on the surface of the Red Planet. But…
Watch live: NASA updates on Mars Curiosity rover
NASA, having successfully survived the “seven minutes of terror” in landing the largest and most expansive Mars mission to date, the space organization has been offering periodic updates, including incredible visuals, from the data transmitted by the Mars Curiosity rover. Watch live, broadcast on MSNBC on Aug. 17. Visit msnbc.com…
Obama tells NASA: ‘I thought about getting a mohawk myself’
During a Monday call to congratulate NASA for successfully landing the Curiosity rover on Mars, President Barack Obama acknowledged the “special mohawk guy” in the control room who had taken the Internet by storm. As the world watched the rover landing last week, NASA flight engineer Bobak Ferdowsi became an…
Watch: NASA’s prototype Moon lander crashes and burns
Video is now available of the speculacular crash of NASA’s low-cast experimental Moon lander, Project Morpheus. A test-firing of the engines last winter went smoothly, but the first test of autonomous free flight failed within seconds. The space agency is taking the failure in stride as part of the normal…
NASA’s test Moon lander crashes and burns
MIAMI — NASA’s experimental Moon lander crashed and burst into flames seconds after takeoff due to a hardware fault, the US space agency said, prompting an investigation but no casualties. The low-cost Project Morpheus lander prototype, designed to carry cargo to the Moon and other space destinations, lifted off the…
NASA shows first ‘crime scene’ photo of Mars landing
WASHINGTON — About 36 hours after the US space agency’s landed its $2.5 billion rover on Mars, NASA released Tuesday what it called a “crime scene” aerial shot of where the parachute, heat shield and rover came down. The touchdown on August 6 of the Mars Science Laboratory involved the…
WATCH LIVE: NASA discusses Mars Curiosity rover’s exploration
NASA officials held a press conference on the latest data received from the Curiosity rover’s exploration of Mars. Watch live, broadcast on MSNBC on Aug. 7. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy…
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