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Six Ways to Celebrate Perseverance This February
Exploration Space Mars Planetary Be a part of the Perseverance landing with these six ways of celebrating the rover's mission!On Thursday, February 18, 2021, Perseverance, a NASA rover about the size...
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Lessons from Apollo 14
Space Apollo Program Human Spaceflight Moon The Apollo program should be remembered as much for landing the first humans on the Moon as it is for countless demonstrations of problem solving and...
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Voyages to Mars: Landing
Popular Culture Space Astronomy Planetary Spacecraft In 1897 author H.G. Wells imagined a different way to see Mars in his short shorty, “The Crystal Egg." Writing around the same time as his famous...
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Is There Life on Mars?
Exploration Space Mars Rovers To get the answer, we have to know what to look for and where to go on the planet for evidence of past life. With the Perseverance rover set to land on Mars on February...
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Driving Mars Exploration: How the Perseverance Rover Will Pave a Path into...
Exploration Space Mars Rovers It’s been nearly 60 years since the first spacecraft were sent to Mars, and it’s inspiring to reflect on the progress that has been made since then. If all goes according...
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Making Tracks on Mars - An Adventure Story
Exploration Space Mars Multimedia Planetary Rovers I’m an executive producer at Smithsonian Channel and I had the pleasure of making the documentary Making Tracks on Mars. We made our film feel like...
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The Science of Frederick Eversley’s Art
Space African Americans Art In 1977, Fred Eversley was invited to work as the first artist in residence in the newly-opened National Air and Space Museum. His art is often grouped with the “Light and...
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Alluvial Fans and Deltas: Windows into the Late Climate History of Mars
Space Mars Research Rovers A new global inventory of landforms created by water on Mars confirms they are more common than previously reported. Many of these landforms formed late in Mars’ history,...
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AirSpace Season 4, Ep. 3: Water Me
Exploration Space Mars Planetary It seems like every time there’s big news from outer space, it’s that we found water some place—as traces of ice or wisps of vapor, embedded in rocks or bound up in...
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Spinning Out of Control: Gemini VIII’s Near-Disaster
Space Gemini Program Human Spaceflight Spacecraft On March 16, 1966, the Gemini VIII astronauts made the world’s first space docking, quickly followed by the first life-threatening, in-flight...
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