Mars

Crops Grow On Fake Moon And Mars Soil

Posted in Science on 10th Sep, 2014
by Alex Muller

That means future space colonizers may be able to farm their own food using local dirt.

NASA Approves Construction of the World's Most Powerful Rocket

Posted in Hardware on 29th Aug, 2014
by Alex Muller

For all the otherworldly space vehicle concepts that NASA engineers dream up, only a small percentage of them ever make it off the drawing board and onto the production line.

NASA will send a system to extract oxygen from the Mars Atmosphere in 2020

Posted in Science on 12th Aug, 2014
by Alex Muller

NASA plans to make oxygen, a central ingredient of rocket fuel, on Mars early in the next decade.

Mars Opportunity Rover sets off-world driving record

Posted in Hardware on 3rd Aug, 2014
by Alex Muller

NASA's Opportunity Mars rover has taken the record for the greatest distance traveled on another planetary body.

Mars 2020 rover will pave the way for future manned missions

Posted in Science on 2nd Aug, 2014
by Alex Muller

Nasa's next Martian rover will attempt to make oxygen on the surface of the red planet when it lands there in 2021.