Mars Space Exploration

NASA decommissions MAVEN Mars orbiter

NASA's dead Mars orbiter MAVEN will crash into the Red Planet in the next 100 years

On Wednesday (June 3), NASA officially declared its MAVEN orbiter dead, closing the book on a highly successful mission that studied the Red Planet's atmosphere for nearly a dozen years.

Geek Spin on MSN · 23h

NASA officially ends Mars mission after 12 years in orbit

Aerospace and Mechanical Insider on MSN · 12h

NASA ends MAVEN mission after Mars orbiter falls silent

Scientific American · 1d

NASA’s Mars mission MAVEN is lost forever

MAVEN was the first successful mission designed to study the atmosphere of Mars.

Smithsonian Magazine · 4h

NASA Officially Ends the MAVEN Mission Months After Losing Contact With the Mars Orbiter

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After 11 years at Mars, NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft went out with a whisper

Hawai‘i Public Radio

NASA funds may bring more missions to Mars — on Maunaloa

University of Hawaiʻi computer scientist Kim Binsted talks about the the HI-SEAS program on Maunaloa, which simulates missions to the moon and to Mars.

Scientific American

Space Exploration

SpaceX scrubs launch of Starship V3—the tallest and most powerful rocket ever built This launch, when it comes, will mark the 12th flight test of Starship and the first demonstration of its V3 design. A new attempt could come as soon as Friday

Space Coast Daily

SpaceX Announces First Commercial Human Missions to the Moon and Mars

SpaceX is taking another major step toward deep-space exploration, announcing plans for two groundbreaking commercial human spaceflight missions that will carry private astronauts beyond Earth orbit and eventually toward Mars.

National Academies

What could we learn by landing humans on Mars?

Landing humans on Mars could teach us whether life ever existed beyond Earth, how planets change over time, and how humans can live on other worlds. By studying Mars up close, astronauts could answer some of the biggest questions in science,

24/7 Wall St.

The Commercial Space Economy Just Crossed a Real Revenue Threshold and After Following This Industry for Years These Are the 3 ETFs Worth Owning

The most recent rocket to Mars has reawakened investor interest in space travel and technology ETFs, which are all up solidly this year.