NASA has awarded Firefly Aerospace a contract to build the aeroshell for its Skyfall mission, which is scheduled to launch to ...
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NASA pushes ESCAPADE Mars launch to 2025

Blue Origin’s towering New Glenn rocket, a partially reusable heavy-lift vehicle designed to compete in the high-stakes ...
American space agency NASA selected Firefly Aerospace to design and build the heat shield for the SkyFall mission planned for 2028.
A California-based company will design, build and launch a spacecraft for NASA's Aeolus mission to orbit around Mars, where the probe will be the first to provide daily measurements of the planet's ...
NASA wants to send an ambitious fleet of helicopters to soar through Martian skies—but scientists fear the endeavor could crater existing Red Planet research missions.
Firefly to leverage proven composite manufacturing expertise from its lunar landers and rockets to enable next generation of Mars exploration ...
NASA has tapped the once-struggling California rocket firm to ferry science payloads to Martian orbit in 2028. Relativity Space has entered the building.
Relativity Space — a rocket maker acquired by former Google executive chair Eric Schmidt last year after stumbling on the path to orbit — might just beat SpaceX to Mars.
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Elon Musk’s Mars illusion

A look at the science behind Elon Musk's goal of a million-person city on Mars, and why planetary scientists say terraforming the planet to make it habitable would take centuries, if it's possible at ...
NASA aims to travel to the moon again—and beyond. Here’s a look at the 21st-century race to send humans into space.
Viking 1 kicked off the search for Martian life 50 years ago. Now NASA’s shifting priorities are putting the quest in limbo.