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Send As with the first human moon landing in 1969, NASA’s Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, is both a small step and a giant leap. Although perhaps that should read “short flight, giant journey” or some other revision of Neil Armstrong’s famous words. Chennai: Either way — and do or die — Ingenuity is a first step towards astronauts traveling to Mars and eventually coming back to Earth. First, it’s about learning how to fly an object on Mars, where the atmosphere is thinner than Earth’s own atmosphere. That’s significant ...

How the Mars helicopter will bring humans back to Earth Flying a drone on Mars will bring the planet closer to home. First, it's about getting off the ground, then bringing rocks back, and, eventually, people. Earth's first-ever helicopter on Mars, Ingenuity, is a first step to humans on Mars As with the first human moon landing in 1969, NASA's Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, is both a small step and a giant leap. Although perhaps that should read "short flight, giant journey" or some other revision of Neil Armstrong's famous words. Either way — and do or die — Ingenuity is a first step towar...

NASA Space Station On-Orbit Status 11 December, 2020 Status Report - Source: SpaceRef NASA Space Station On-Orbit Status 11 December, 2020. Today: Payloads - JAXA Low Temp PCG: The crew retrieved the Low Temp PCG Sample from cold stowage and initiated protein crystal growth with historical documentation of the sample condition. The PCG Sample was re-inserted back into cold stowage. The objective of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Low Temperature Protein Crystallization Growth (JAXA Low Temp PCG) investigation is to grow high quality protein crystals in microgravity. The c...

NASA Space Station On-Orbit Status 8 December 2020 - Unpacking the Dragon Status Report - Source: SpaceRef The upgraded SpaceX Cargo Dragon vehicle approaches the International Space Station. Six spaceships, three U.S. and three Russian, are parked at the International Space Station after Monday's arrival of the upgraded SpaceX Cargo Dragon vehicle. The Expedition 64 crew will spend the rest of December focusing on science as 2021 shapes up to be a busy year on the orbital lab. Two Dragon spaceships, one cargo craft and one crew ship, are docked to the station's Harmony module f...

NASA Space Station On-Orbit Status 9 December 2020 - New Space Biology Experiments Status Report - Source: SpaceRef Expedition 64 Flight Engineer Michael Hopkins checks on biological samples. The Expedition 64 crew kicked off an array of new space biology experiments delivered this week aboard the SpaceX Cargo Dragon. The International Space Station residents will be gaining unique insights about the human heart, muscles and stem cells that only microgravity can provide. NASA astronaut Kate Rubins started looking at cardiovascular cells inside the Life Science Glovebox today for...