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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

In response to a winter storm currently affecting NASA personnel and broadcast capabilities in Texas, NASA is adjusting coverage of the arrival and docking of a Russian cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station. View the full article

NASA has awarded the Consolidated Program Support Services Project Coordination contract to Barrios Technology Ltd. of Houston to provide project coordination services at the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, with the potential to provide these services to other NASA centers. View the full article

We Asked a NASA Scientist: Could Microbes Survive a Trip to Mars?

Feb. 18: We're Landing a Rover on Mars!

NASA has assigned two crew members to launch on the agency’s SpaceX Crew-4 mission – the fourth crew rotation flight of the Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station. View the full article

Tracking Our Next Mars Landing on This Week @NASA – February 12, 2021

NASA is inviting the public to take part in virtual activities and events as the agency’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover nears entry, descent, and landing on the Red Planet, with touchdown scheduled for approximately 3:55 p.m. EST Thursday, Feb. 18. View the full article

NASA commercial cargo provider Northrop Grumman is targeting 12:36 p.m. EST Saturday, Feb. 20, for the launch of its 15th resupply mission to the International Space Station. View the full article

The Power of African American Leadership in NASA

Entre las muchas primicias de la misión Mars 2020 Perseverance de la NASA se encuentra la primera retransmisión en español de la agencia para un aterrizaje planetario. View the full article