Viking 1 & 2 | The Twin Martian Orbiter And Lander Spacecraft
Mars’ Trailblazing Twins Viking 1 & Viking 2 were a pair of spacecraft as part of the Mars Viking Program. Each spacecraft was composed of an orbiter & lander. The…
NASA’s Futuristic Dragonfly Drone Mission To Saturn’s Moon Titan!
Dragonfly Drone Buzzes Around Alien Moon It sounds like science fiction, but NASA is sending a nuclear powered robotic quadcopter to fly over the dunes and craters of an alien…
Sojourner Rover | The First Little Martian Rover
Mars Exploration NASA’s Mars Pathfinder mission was an exploration mission to the Red Planet which delivered the Sojourner Rover - the first rover to be used on another planet! The…
Surveyor Program | Preparing For Manned Landings
Surveyor Mission's (1 - 7) The Surveyor program followed NASA’s Ranger lunar missions and was designed to prepare for the upcoming manned Apollo missions by developing and testing technologies for…
Search For Martians! The NASA Mars 2020 Rover
Seeking Habitable Conditions And Life! The NASA Mars 2020 mission continues the American space agency’s long history of robotic exploration of the Red Planet. The Mars 2020 rover will search…
Philae | Rosetta Deploys The First Comet Lander!
ESA’s Philae Lander The Rosetta spacecraft, and the piggy-backing Philae lander, were launched on an Ariane 5 rocket on March 2nd 2004 arriving at comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko nearly 10 ½ years…
Incredible Facts On The Huygens Titan Landing Probe!
First Deep Space Landing The Huygens space probe was part of the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft that was launched to study Saturn and its moons in 1997. Huygens, built by the European…
Mars’ Phoenix Lander – The Polar Explorer
Seeking Polar Water-Ice! NASA’s Mars Phoenix Lander mission was a stationary lander sent to an area of Mars’ polar north with the lander making a soft landing using descent engines…
Curiosity | Facts About NASA’s Nuclear Powered Mars Rover!
The Car-sized Explorer! The Curiosity Rover is a car-sized robot sent to the Red Planet in 2011 to study the Martian climate and geology. The nuclear powered, 6-wheel rover landed…
Opportunity Rover | NASA’s Record Setting Rover
The Tireless Explorer! The Opportunity Rover is one of two Mars Exploration Rovers (along with its twin Spirit) sent to the Red Planet in 2003 by NASA. Solar powered, the…