Mars has always felt like a distant neighbor, reachable only after a long, risky cruise through deep space. Now engineers ...
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NASA is preparing to launch three sounding rockets as part of its Turbulent Oxygen Mixing Experiment Plus, or TOMEX+, with a launch window opening at 10 p.m. on Aug. 25 from the Wallops Flight ...
Sending anything to Mars is a much more difficult process than it seems. In the 1960s, the Soviet Union tried (and failed) in its first nine consecutive attempts, and the US was only able to succeed ...