India News: The Laser Retroreflector Array (LRA), the fourth payload Chandrayaan-3 lander Vikram took to the lunar surface, will start its work once the rest of i
In what was part experiment and part publicity stunt, an Apollo astronaut took a tin of tree seeds around the moon more than 50 years ago, and now the Artemis mission is doing it again.
In what was part experiment and part publicity stunt, an Apollo astronaut took a tin of tree seeds around the moon more than 50 years ago, and now the Artemis mission is doing it again.
The space community has ambitious plans but a new administration in the U.S. may tweak the priorities.
NASA has a busy year of upcoming planetary events and missions for 2021. Here’s the list as kept by the NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive (NSSDCA), a home page archive of space science mission data:
2021 January -
2021 February 9 - Hope - United Arab Emirates mission reaches Mars and goes into orbit
2021 February - Tianwen 1 - Chinese orbiter, lander, and rover mission reaches Mars
2021 February 18 - Mars 2020 - NASA rover and rotorcraft land in Jezero crater on Mars
2021 February 20 - Parker Solar Probe - NASA solar mission makes fourth Venus flyby