From Hollywood deals to Air Force grant, ODU ‘idea man’ is making tech for humans to live on Mars

A Hollywood writer turned ODU professor, Morgan Gendel is now working on an engineering project sponsored by the Air Force.
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NASA renews commitment to Europe's life-hunting Mars rover despite Trump budget cuts

"These confirmations have been given to us in writing, so this is a very important step." ...

Let's go on an ESCAPADE: NASA's small, low-cost orbiters will examine Mars' atmosphere

Envision a time when hundreds of spacecraft are exploring the solar system and beyond. That's the future that NASA's ESCAPADE, or escape and plasma acceleration and dynamics explorers, mission will ...

NASA unveils new close-up images of massive comet from outside solar system

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center shared the images of comet 3I/ATLAS.

NASA’s Mars Sample Return Mission in Jeopardy as U.S. Considers Abandoning Retrieval

Right now one of the most advanced planetary explorers ever built is scouring the surface of Mars. Supported by a team of ...
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This Mars-Bound Spacecraft Will Test Jared Isaacman’s Vision for NASA

NASA’s presumptive next leader wants to outsource more of the space agency’s interplanetary science. The newly launched ESCAPADE mission to Mars offers a sanity check for those plans ...

Four volunteers are a month into their ‘life on Mars’

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Blue Origin Sends NASA Mission To Mars, Followed By First-Ever Successful Landing Of New Glenn's Booster

I t’s off! The Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) mission is on its way to Mars. It was sent into orbit by New Glenn, the heavy-lift launch vehicle from Blue Origin, the ...
New Atlas

Voyager 1 approaches one light day from Earth

As it heads out of the solar system never to return, the deep space probe Voyager 1 is headed for yet another cosmic ...

Solar storms delay the launch of Blue Origin's big new rocket with Mars orbiters for NASA

Strong solar storms responsible for breathtaking auroras across the U.S. have delayed the launch of Blue Origin's big new rocket ...
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Blue Origin will attempt New Glenn launch of Mars mission Wednesday

CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION — In the end, poor weather forced Blue Origin on Sunday to scrub its second launch of its New Glenn rocket. It was supposed to send up NASA’s ESCAPADE mission, which ...