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News Update on Upcoming Space Station Spacewalks

NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover got its first high-definition look around its new home in Jezero Crater on Feb. 21, after rotating its mast, or “head,” 360 degrees, allowing the rover’s Mastcam-Z instrument to capture its first panorama after touching down on the Red Planet on Feb 18. View the full article

NASA is seeking proposals for ground and flight demonstrations of integrated megawatt-class powertrain systems for subsonic aircraft. View the full article

NASA has awarded the Spectrum and Resource Management, Engineering and Programmatic Support Services (SpectRE) contract to Agile Decision Sciences LLC of Beltsville, Maryland. View the full article

Watch NASA's Perseverance Rover Land | Video from Mars!

NASA will highlight the second crew rotation flight of a U.S. commercial spacecraft with astronauts to the International Space Station with a pair of news conferences beginning 12:30 p.m. EST Monday, March 1. View the full article

Panorama of Mars from Perseverance Rover

Perseverance Rover’s Descent and Touchdown on Mars (Official NASA Video)

New video from NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover chronicles major milestones during the final minutes of its entry, descent, and landing (EDL) on the Red Planet on Feb. 18 as the spacecraft plummeted, parachuted, and rocketed toward the surface of Mars. View the full article

NASA will hold a virtual briefing at 2 p.m. EST (11 a.m. PST) today to unveil the “How to Land on Mars” video, which will present first-of-its-kind footage the Perseverance rover captured as it touched down on the Red Planet Feb. 18. The agency also will show new images the rover took on the Martian surface. View the full article

Our Perseverance Rover Takes up Residence on Mars on This Week @NASA – February 20, 2021

President Biden Congratulates NASA on the Perseverance Mars Rover Touchdown

A Northrop Grumman Cygnus resupply spacecraft is en route to the International Space Station with approximately 8,000 pounds of science investigations and cargo after launching at 12:36 p.m. EST Saturday from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. About three hours after launch, the spacecraft’s solar arrays successfully deployed to collect su View the full article

Mission Update: NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover

Northrop Grumman Cargo Launch to the Space Station from NASA Wallops

Three crew members from Expedition 64 will conduct two spacewalks working in pairs Sunday, Feb. 28, and Friday, March 5, to continue upgrades on the International Space Station. View the full article

We Asked a NASA Scientist: Is Mars Habitable?

Less than a day after NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover successfully landed on the surface of Mars, engineers and scientists at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California were hard at work, awaiting the next transmissions from Perseverance. View the full article

NASA Science Live: We Landed on Mars

After the Landing: An Update about NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover

The largest, most advanced rover NASA has sent to another world touched down on Mars Thursday, after a 203-day journey traversing 293 million miles (472 million kilometers). View the full article

Q/A: International Partnerships are Getting Perseverance to Mars, Here's How

60 Years of Mars Exploration Has Led to This

Feb. 18: Our Perseverance Rover & Ingenuity Helicopter Arrive at Mars

NASA will host a media teleconference at 9 a.m. EST Friday, Feb.19, to discuss the final test in the Green Run testing series for the core stage of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that will launch the agency’s Artemis I mission. View the full article