UT San Antonio and SwRI have NASA approval for Mars-themed project

UT San Antonio and Southwest Research Institute are working on MARS-C, which could help humans live on Mars. NASA has given ...
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Embry-Riddle students contribute to NASA's Mars mission

DAYTONA BEACH — For three years, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University engineering physics student Nathan Graves toiled inside a lab designing software to relay satellite data from Mars to Earth. By ...
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NASA just lost contact with a Mars orbiter, and will soon lose another one

NASA has lost contact with one of its three spacecraft orbiting Mars, the agency announced Tuesday. Meanwhile, a second Mars orbiter is perilously close to running out of fuel, and the third mission ...

Live like an astronaut for a year: Nasa opens applications for Moon and Mars simulation

For decades, space agencies have relied on Earth-based simulations to understand what long periods of isolation might do to astronauts before they ever leave the ground. Nasa is now preparing for one ...
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A Vital NASA Mars Orbiter Has Gone Dark

MAVEN has circled Mars for more than a decade, exploring the planet and relaying data from robots on the surface. Reading time 2 minutes NASA has lost the signal from a Martian probe that also serves ...

A half-century later, Viking probes still unlocking secrets of Mars

Williamsburg-area residents Joel Levine and Milton Holt were key members of the Viking Project, the historic quest to land ...