Jan 22 NASA Rover Stops Transmitting Data From Mars NASA's rover Spirit has failed to transmit data from Mars for more than 24 hours in what mission scientists thought at first was a weather-related interruption but now believe could be a serious hardware or software problem. Continue reading
Jan 22 Watch Lost Contact NASA scientists have not received any transmissions from their Martian rover Spirit in over 24 hours. Jeffrey Brown discusses this setback with Charles Elachi, director of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. Continue watching
Jan 19 NASA Ends Service Missions to Hubble Telescope By PBS News Hour NASA has said it will no longer service the Hubble Space Telescope, which has been relaying spectacular images of celestial objects from its orbital vantage point for more than ten years. Continue reading
Jan 15 Mars Rover Rolls Onto Planet’s Surface Nearly two weeks after its arrival on Mars, the robotic rover Spirit rolled off its landing platform Thursday for its first trip onto Martian soil. Continue reading
Jan 15 Watch Making Tracks The NASA rover Spirit rolled off its lander last night and began to explore the Martian soil. Jeffrey Brown asks Jet Propulsion Laboratory Director Charles Elachi about its progress. Continue watching
Jan 14 Bush Unveils Plan to Return Humans to Moon and on to Mars By Admin President Bush announced plans Wednesday to develop a new spacecraft to send humans back to the moon as early as 2015 and use it as a launching point for manned missions to Mars and beyond. Continue reading
Jan 14 Watch President Bush Pledges to Return to the Moon President Bush announced plans Wednesday to develop a new spacecraft to send humans back to the moon as early as 2015 and use it as a launching point for manned missions to Mars and beyond. Two experts debate whether the… Continue watching
Jan 14 Watch Space Initiative: Background President Bush called today for the United States to return astronauts to the moon in the next decade and then possibly send people to Mars. Continue watching
Jan 09 Farm-Raised Salmon Higher in Cancer-causing Pollutants, Study Shows A study published Thursday in the journal Science found that farm-raised salmon contain significantly more cancer-causing pollutants than those caught in the wild. Continue reading
Jan 05 Mars Rover Sends First Images to Earth The robotic explorer Spirit successfully landed on Mars Saturday night and immediately began transmitting images of its surroundings, a long-dried up lake bed where scientists are seeking evidence that life once existed on the red planet. Continue reading