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Contact restored with NASA’s Voyager 1 space probe
That was the message relieved NASA officials shared after the agency regained full contact with the Voyager 1 space probe, the most distant human-made object in the universe, scientists have ...
ABC News19d
NASA's Voyager 1 sending readable data back to Earth for 1st time in 5 months
The problem stemmed from a corrupted chip in one of the spacecraft's computers. After more than five months without contact, NASA has finally reconnected with Voyager 1, the farthest spacecraft ...
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NASA needs a new approach for its challenging Mars Sample Return mission
NASA has shared an update on its beleaguered Mars Sample Return mission, admitting that its previous plan was too ambitious and announcing that it will now be looking for new ideas to make the ...
CBS News27d
NASA seeking help to develop a lower-cost Mars Sample Return mission
Responding to an independent review of NASA's ambitious Mars Sample Return mission, agency officials said Monday they will seek fresh ideas from agency engineers, researchers and the private ...
CNN27d
NASA rethinks plan to return rare Mars samples to Earth
NASA is seeking innovative methods that could help retrieve samples collected by the Perseverance rover on Mars in the future. The rover, which landed on Mars in February 2021, has been gathering ...
National Geographic news20d
NASA has a plan to clean up space junk—but is going green enough?
Astronomers laud NASA's plan to protect the space environment, but the agency needs to act fast to make a difference. This illustration depicts the distribution of trackable debris within Earth's ...
National Review27d
NASA
Astronaut Alan Shepard becomes the first American to fly in space in 1961. Images of NASA’s fifth manned moon landing in 1972. A look back at the 1970 Apollo mission. A look back at NASA’s ...
CBS News19d
Most distant spacecraft from Earth sends data to NASA for first time in 5 months
The most distant spacecraft from Earth has resumed sending data after a five-month gap, NASA said Monday. In November 2023, the spacecraft stopped sending "readable science and engineering data ...
The New York Times28d
NASA Seeks ‘Hail Mary’ for Its Mars Rocks Return Mission
By Kenneth Chang Kenneth Chang has reported on almost every NASA mission to Mars during the 21st century. The cost of a proposed NASA mission to gather rocks on Mars and return them to Earth is ...
Ars Technica27d
NASA says it needs better ideas on how to return samples from Mars
NASA's $11 billion plan to robotically bring rock samples from Mars back to Earth is too expensive and will take too long, the agency's administrator said Monday, so officials are tasking ...
The Washington Post27d
NASA announces major overhaul of ambitious Mars Sample Return mission
An illustration shows NASA's Perseverance rover on the Martian surface. (NASA/JPL-Caltech) NASA announced Monday it is dramatically overhauling its highly anticipated but troubled mission to bring ...