NASA has recently reported its major breakthroughs and groundbreaking achievements in 2014. It seems that the most important achievements were related to Mars exploration – rover Curiosity’s landing on Mars’ surface and Orion spacecraft’s (photo) short flight test. Orion would be the first spacecraft to safely get a human crew to Mars by 2021. Orion’s flight test was successfully completed … [Read more...]
NASA’s Mars Mission Takes Its First Major Step
The Mars mission is something that scientists have dreamt of since mid-20th century. Immense amounts of time and money have been invested in the past decade to make this dream real, and for the first time in history, everyone can see with their own eyes that we are, slowly but surely, getting there. Although probes and rovers have been trekking on Martian land for a while, the aim has always … [Read more...]
