An exploding budget and an unraveling schedule spell disappointment for NASA's mission to learn more about Mars's history.

The float's Mars Helicopter took flight at the control of two drone pilots who were ... demonstrator to supporting the science mission of the on-going Perseverance rover by scouting the landscape ...

Human ambition to want to know as much as possible about everything around us in space is something that could already be ...

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson left a final decision on a new mission architecture to the next NASA administrator working ...

Earlier this month, outgoing NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and other agency officials presented two possible plans for the mission ... agency's Perseverance rover has been scouring Mars and ...

But the mission to return those Perseverance Mars rover samples ... use a sophisticated robotic arm (or perhaps robotic drones like NASA's Ingenuity Mars helictoper) to collect the samples from ...

NASA will investigate two new approaches to bring its Mars samples ... its Mars Sample Return mission, its plan to fly bits of rock, dust, and air collected by Perseverance back to Earth.

The float was also decorated with "floralgraph" mission patches, including the emblems for NASA's Viking, Pathfinder and Perseverance (Mars 2020) missions, as rendered using flowers. The float's Mars ...