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Launches, spacecraft, satellites, exploration programs and the engineering that carries people and instruments beyond Earth.
The stripes on Perseverance's parachute were mostly there so engineers could see how…
NASA's first Space Shuttle launch lost 16 heat shield tiles and damaged 148 more before…
Mars is no longer one grand mission: Perseverance has driven a marathon, sample return…
Every turn of Curiosity’s six aluminium wheels stamps the letters JPL into Mars in…
The programme to return Perseverance's rock samples from Mars was cancelled by the US…
The nearest star system sits 4.2 light-years away—a distance today’s spacecraft would…
A 70-kilogram person would weigh the equivalent of about 26.5 kilograms on Mars and…
Four astronauts just went farther from Earth than any human in history
Scientists have blamed sulfur released by the Chicxulub impact for the impact winter…
The Moon has been struck by billions of impactors over four billion years, but the one…
