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Watch Blue Origin's huge New Glenn rocket launch a NASA 'ESCAPADE' to Mars on Nov. 12 after weather delay

Blue Origin's powerful New Glenn rocket will launch a NASA mission to Mars this weekend, and you can watch the action live.

NASA is sending probes to Mars to find out why it lost its atmosphere and what that could mean for Earth

The ESCAPADE mission, short for Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, is the first dual-satellite mission to ...

NASA quietly sends two spacecraft to Mars — and they're going a new way

A NASA mission will send twin spacecraft to Mars to learn what happened to the Red Planet's ancient, thick atmosphere.

Here’s how orbital dynamics wizardry helped save NASA’s next Mars mission

ESCAPADE’s path through space, relative to the Earth, has the peculiar shape of a kidney bean. In the world of astrodynamics, ...
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NASA's new Mars mission: These twin satellites could reveal how the Red Planet lost its atmosphere

Mars is about to receive a double dose of attention. This weekend, a pair of identical NASA satellites will launch together ...

Blue Origin scrubs Sunday’s Mars launch, sets new target date

Poor weather forced Blue Origin to stand down, but Monday's backup opportunity is also in doubt — for a different reason.

Isaacman’s NASA Plan Cites Possible SpaceX Role in Quest to Get to Mars

President Donald Trump’s NASA pick Jared Isaacman has proposed to launch an uncrewed mission to Mars as early as next year, ...

Mission to Mars: How space exploration pushes the human body to its limits

On January 14, 2004, the United States announced a new "Vision for Space Exploration," promising that humans would not only ...