Learn About The Ground-breaking Futuristic Dawn Spacecraft!
Orbiting Protoplanets Vesta And Ceres Learn Fun Facts about the groundbreaking Dawn Spacecraft and its mission to explore the two largest asteroids Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres. Learn about…
MARVEN | The Martian Atmosphere Probe
Who Killed Mars’ Water Cycle?! NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN mission (affectionately known as MAVEN for short) was conceived to investigate the processes occurring throughout Martian history which lead…
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…
Spacecraft 101 | Power Sources And Propulsion ☢
No Gas Stations In Space! Ever wondered how the space probes that explore the solar system power themselves when there are no gas stations to refuel in space? Well, they…
Lucy Spacecraft – Deep Space Traveller To Jupiter’s Trojan Asteroids
First Mission To The Trojans! Lucy is a planned NASA mission to fly-by 5 Jupiter Trojan asteroids, along with a main Asteroid belt object, and is set to launch in…
Space Probes | Exploring The Solar System! 🛰
Mankind's Robotic Explorers! Shortly after the beginning of the Space Age, humans started sending robotic space probes into space. First, they were sent to the Moon then shortly after on…
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…
Europa Clipper’s Journey To A Frozen Ocean World
Destination Europa! The NASA Europa Clipper mission plans to orbit Jupiter performing at least 45 flybys of the moon Europa, carrying out a detailed investigation to determine whether the icy…