Aug 15 Mars Revealed by Intrepid New Rover By Jenny Marder NASA's intrepid Mars Rover, Curiosity has been through a lot in the past year. It flew 354-million miles, deployed a supersonic parachute and sky crane and landed on the surface of Mars. And while it undergoes equipment checks, it's been… Continue reading
Aug 05 Curiosity Rover Lands Safely on Surface of Mars After a 354 million-mile journey, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory and its rover Curiosity succeeded in a risky, sophisticated landing on the surface of Mars, and began beaming back photos of its own shadow against the soil of its… Continue reading
Aug 03 Watch Mission to Mars: Anticipating NASA Rover 'Curiosity' Touchdown Mission to Mars: Anticipating NASA Rover 'Curiosity' Touchdown… Continue watching
Aug 02 Robots and Rovers and Mars Revisited By News Desk With the youngest and most ambitious Mars rover yet zipping toward its final destination, we thought it appropriate to pause and take a look back at Curiosity's new home and robot brethren. Continue reading
May 03 Watch SpaceX Boldly Looks to Blast 'Millions of People to Mars' With the space shuttle era now over and U.S. space flight on the verge of going private for the near future, the company behind the so-called SpaceX project has ambitious plans to make space flight cheaper for cargo and for… Continue watching
Nov 25 Watch Curiosity Rover Prepped to Begin 300 Million-Mile Journey to Mars Hari caught up Richard Cook of Mars Science Laboratory to discuss the upcoming launch. Continue watching
Nov 04 Mars500 Crew Finally Freed More than 500 days of isolation with five other guys ... could you do it? That is what one Chinese man, two European and three Russian men have been through to simulate what humans might encounter if they attempted… Continue reading
Mar 16 Watch First Rock From the Sun: NASA Set to Explore Mercury's Extreme Atmosphere Imagine traveling to a planet where the sun is 11 times stronger than on Earth, the temperature can swing 1,100 degrees and you have to maintain contact with headquarters back on Earth. Science correspondent Miles O'Brien reports on NASA's tricky… Continue watching
Jun 02 Watch News Wrap: 12 Dead, 25 Wounded in England Shooting Rampage In other news Wednesday, a taxi driver in northwest England went on a shooting spree that killed 12 people. Also, Taliban militants carried out a suicide attack during President Hamid Karzai's address at a peace jirga in Afghanistan. Continue watching
Mar 29 NewsHour Plus 'This Week In Space' Talk Mars and Your Ticket to the Stars By Chris Amico, Miles O'Brien Recent developments have moved us a bit closer to "space (flight) for the rest of us," Miles O'Brien of 'This Week In Space' tells us in his first visit to NewsHour Plus. O'Brien catches us up on… Continue reading