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Fathom Events presents a 25th anniversary screening of Mission: Impossible in select theaters on Sunday, Monday and Wednesday. Tom Cruise stars in the big-screen blockbuster, directed by Brian De Palma, that launched one of today’s biggest action movie franchises. Ethan Hunt (Cruise), is a top secret agent, framed for the deaths of his espionage team. Fleeing from government assassins, breaking into the CIA s most impenetrable vault, clinging to the roof of a speeding bullet train, Hunt races to stay one step ahead of his pursuers and draw one step closer to discovering the shocking truth. The screening also includes a featurette, Mission: Catching the Train. For theaters and showtimes, visit fathomevents.com.
Biden calls NASA s chief to congratulate him, while sending out a tweet calling the landing historic
NASA s Perseverance rover successfully landed on Mars following a 239 million-mile journey through space
It entered Martian atmosphere at around 12,000mph and deployed a parachute to slow down before landing
The sky crane maneuver first used on Curiosity in 2012 was employed to get Perseverance to the surface
Perseverance will search for biosignatures in the Jezero crater that is said to be an extinct lake
It will collect samples and cache them across Mars for a separate mission in 2023 to retrieve
Shortly after landing the rover sent back its first images of the Martian surface to NASA headquarters
Our 5,000-year obsession with the Red Planet: As NASA s Perseverance rover touches down today, we reflect on human s long journey to explore Mars since our ancestors first named their deities for the distant planet
NASA s Perseverance rover is set to land on Mars Thursday, February 18 where it will spend two years
The rover will investigate that Jezero crater in search of biosignatures and take samples from the area
However, humans obsession with Mars can be traced back to the third millennium BC
The Babylonians made the first record of Mars, but only explained it as their god of war
Today, NASA and other space agency hope Mars will answer one question - is there life on other planets?