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NASA And DARPA To Develop Nuclear Rocket Engines For Mars

Partnership between NASA and DARPA seeks to develop nuclear thermal rocket engine for upcoming Mars missions

China's Mars rover, Zhurong, takes self-portrait as it explores Utopia Planitia region of Red Planet at same time as NASA's Perseverance

After a few explosions and failures along the way, the futuristic Starship from SpaceX successfully returns to earth and lands upright

Historic first flight of small helicopter on an offworld planet, after NASA successfully launches small helicopter on Mars

NASA successfully tests Space Launch System, a rocket intended to send humans back to the the lunar surface and eventually to Mars

Learning more...another SpaceX rocket bites the dust, after it successfully lands upright but then explodes minutes later on the pad

Valuable lessons. Second malfunction of SpaceX’s prototype Starship rocket, as it attempts to land vertically after successful launch

Inspiration4 will be the world’s first all-commercial astronaut mission that will put all an civilian crew into orbit in Q4 this year

Space agency NASA confirms water found on sunlight sections of the moon, expanding the location options for a permanent lunar base

The company also launched its first navigation satellite for the US military, in a win against Boeing and Lockheed-Martin

HP Inc also revealed a VR backpack aimed at business use

The Mars rover 'Curiosity' has now fired its laser 100,000 times since landing on the red planet last year

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'Curiosity' landed on Mars in August of last year, bringing on-site soil analysis tools to the planet for the first time

Good quality software is essential for a successful Mars mission