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NASA Mars helicopter ends mission after 1,004 days, exceeding all expectations

When NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter lost contact just above the surface of Mars on January 18, 2024, it marked the end of a ...
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NASA won’t bring Mars samples back to Earth: this is the science that will be lost

A Congressional bill restores funding for most NASA space science missions, but there is no money for returning samples ...
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US just killed NASA's Mars sample return mission – so what happens now?

Congressional supporters of the Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission have buckled to pressure from the Trump administration to ...

ESA-NASA Mars Sample Return mission called off

The European Space Agency (ESA) officials shared about this development during the annual media briefing held in Paris on ...

A NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars may be dead

NASA lost communication with its MAVEN probe nearly a month ago, and efforts to re-establish a connection have been futile.
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NASA's Escapade Mars Mission Will Be Completely Different - Here's How

On November 13, NASA launched a new unmanned mission to Mars under the name ESCAPADE, short for Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers. The launch was met with fairly little fanfare in ...

US House and Senate Push for Regular NASA Budget

The final appropriations bill aims to maintain NASA's budgets from 2024 and 2025, instead of cutting the agency's allocations ...