Tag Archives: Mars

NASA’s Space Technology Investments for Mars Benefiting Life on Earth

Posted on January 26, 2016 by glenn.selby

NASA’s technology investments enable the nation to achieve its space exploration and discovery goals, but the innovations also benefit the public here on earth.
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Saturday Space Sight: Mars ‘Marathon Valley’ Overlook

Posted on May 23, 2015 by Yolanda R. Arrington

NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows us the Marathon Valley.
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(U.S. Defense Department graphic illustration by Jessica L. Tozer/Released)

Saturday Space Sight: NASA’s Journey to Mars

Posted on December 27, 2014 by jtozer

Saturday Space Sight: NASA is developing the capabilities needed to send humans to an asteroid by 2025 and Mars in the 2030s.
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Saturday Space Sight: NASA’s Plans to Explore the Red Planet as Never Before

Posted on August 23, 2014 by jtozer

The next rover NASA will send to Mars in 2020 will carry seven carefully-selected instruments to conduct unprecedented science and exploration technology investigations on the Red Planet.
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Dreaming Big: Army Lt. Heidi Beemer Takes One Step Closer to Mars

Posted on May 29, 2014 by jtozer

Army Lt. Heidi Beemer made the first round of cuts in a non-profit Mars-bound mission. Will she be chosen to go where no one has gone before?
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Saturday Space Sight: Go West, Young Rover

Posted on March 1, 2014 by jtozer

Saturday Space Sight: The team operating NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover will likely drive the rover westward over a dune and across a valley with fewer sharp rock hazards than alternative routes.
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Moving to MARS

Posted on January 23, 2014 by jtozer

MC2 Glenn Slaughter hopes to be among the first intrepid few to colonize Mars as a part of the ambitious Mars One program! He’s made it this far, can he make it all the way to the red planet?
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From Army Officer to Mars Colonist?

Posted on October 1, 2013 by jtozer

Army 1st Lt. Heidi Beemer has career ambitions just like any military officer. She wants to excel in her field. Make a difference. Serve her country. Live on a foreign planet. Wait…what? Have you heard of the Mars One mission? …
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