Smithsonian Magazine

NASA Aims to Launch the World’s First Planet-Hopping Spacecraft Powered by Nuclear Fission

NASA has big, potentially revolutionary plans coming up. On March 24, the agency announced that it wants to send a ...
Space on MSN

Mars Helicopter Ingenuity Appears To Be Missing Rotor Blades From The Perseverance Rover Captured Images

Mars helicopter Ingenuity appears to be missing rotor blades in Perseverance rover imagery captured. The rover's SuperCam ...
India Today on MSN

NASA to launch nuclear spaceship SR-1 Freedom, deploy helicopter fleet on Mars

Nasa officials say this marks the first time such a system will be used as the primary propulsion method for an ...
ZME Science

NASA Is Sending a Fleet of Helicopters to Mars on the First Ever Nuclear-Powered Interplanetary Spacecraft

NASA is officially sending a fleet of robotic helicopters to Mars in 2028.
ABC 7 Chicago

NASA successfully completes second, more challenging Mars helicopter flight

NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity made history again Thursday with another epic Red Planet flight. This time, controllers on Earth completed a more challenging flight by climbing to 16 feet and tilting ...
KTNV Las Vegas

NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter on Mars flies faster, farther on third flight

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flew faster and farther on Sunday than it had in any previous flights or any tests on Earth. The device flew 50 meters, over half the length of a football field, at a ...
The Gazette

NASA's Mars helicopter takes flight, 1st for another planet

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s experimental helicopter Ingenuity rose into the thin air above the dusty red surface of Mars on Monday, achieving the first powered flight by an aircraft on another ...