Category: NASA

As we follow the Mars 2020 Perseverance mission I’ll provide weekly updates on what’s been going with the mission. This update covers science and updates and what Perseverance is performing up through March 9, 2021. Percy performed a test drive which included driving forward, backing up to reposition, and continued movements so Percy could image…

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a NASA mission I have been waiting for some time to launch. Originally set to be launched in 2018, we are now 3 years overdue. Admittedly the James Webb Space Telescope might be the most complicated piece of equipment NASA has ever launched, and that’s saying something when…

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is an ongoing mission which launched August 12, 2005. After a 7 month journey to Mars it has been on a continuing search for water by studying the evidence of past water features such as river delta’s, lakebeds and old networks of rivers which have carved up and eroded away…

The Artemis missions are NASA’s continuing efforts to get humans back to the moon. We’ve had astronauts in space for decades now aboard the orbiting International Space Station. The scope of the Artemis Phase I-III missions culminates historically with America putting the first woman and getting man back to the moon by 2024 in the…

The above image is the top down view looking at the rover right before the cables connecting it to it’s flight mechanism were “pyrotechnically cut” and Perseverance dropped to the ground. You can see the gravel below the rover being pushed outward in all directions from the powerful jets keeping the 1 ton rover aloft…

The next technological marvel in Mars lander technology is brought to us by our favorite civil service agency NASA, has safely touched down on the red planet without incident on February 18, 2021 just before 4pm EST. The Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover will augment existing landers and rovers and is the the USA’s newest Mars…

The Artemis Mission “We are going to the moon, to stay, by 2024,” NASA boldly exclaims in one of their newer video offerings on it’s NASA.gov website titled “We Are Going.” To go farther and create bases on other planets and moons NASA must be able to ferry heavier loads into outer space and create…

NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover left Earth on July 30th of 2020. It has been speeding towards Mars ever since. On February 18, 2021 it will land and we we will have yet another rover on mars. Perseverance is the biggest, heaviest, cleanest, and most sophisticated rover to visit Mars yet. It will be landing in…