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December 1, 2011
Excellent launch precision for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission has forestalled the need for an early trajectory correction maneuver, now not required for a month or more.
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November 30, 2011
NASA's Dawn, Mars Science Laboratory and MESSENGER missions have been honored by Popular Science magazine with "Best of What's New" Award in aviation and space.
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November 26, 2011
Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA began a historic voyage to Mars with the Nov. 26 launch of the Mars Science Laboratory, which carries a car-sized rover named Curiosity. Liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station aboard an Atlas V rocket occurred at 10:02 a.m. EST (7:02 a.m. PST).
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November 23, 2011
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory is tucked inside its Atlas V rocket, ready for launch on Nov. 26, 2011 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
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November 21, 2011
Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA has updated information about the news conferences and other events for the agency's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover launch. Liftoff is scheduled at 7:02 a.m. PST (10:02 a.m. EST) on Saturday, Nov. 26 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
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November 19, 2011
The launch of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V carrying NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) is being delayed one day to allow time for the team to remove and replace a flight termination system battery.
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November 18, 2011
The Flight Readiness Review for the Mars Science Laboratory was conducted Friday in the mission briefing room at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
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November 18, 2011
Maybe because it appears as a speck of blood in the sky, the planet Mars was named after the Roman god of war. From the point of view of life as we know it, that's appropriate. The Martian surface is incredibly hostile for life.
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November 16, 2011
Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA has invited 150 followers of the agency's Twitter account to a two-day launch Tweetup on Nov. 23 and 25 at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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November 10, 2011
In the Vertical Integration Facility at Launch Complex 41, the Mars Science Laboratory with the Curiosity rover is atop the Atlas V rocket.
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November 10, 2011
Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft with the Curiosity rover is set to launch to the planet Mars aboard an Atlas V rocket on Nov. 26, 2011 from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
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November 10, 2011
Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA's most advanced mobile robotic laboratory, which will examine one of the most intriguing areas on Mars, is in final preparations for a launch from Florida's Space Coast at 10:02 a.m. EST (7:02 a.m. PST) on Nov. 26.
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November 8, 2011
Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA will hold a news conference at 10 a.m. PST (1 p.m. EST), Thursday, Nov. 10, to discuss the upcoming launch of the Mars Science Laboratory, with the largest and most capable rover going to another planet.
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November 3, 2011
The Curiosity rover and spacecraft components were delivered inside the fairing to the launch pad this morning.
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October 25, 2011
In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF), integration of the Mars Science Laboratory into the Atlas V payload fairing is under way this week.
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October 20, 2011
Russia has provided a neutron-shooting instrument called DAN that will enable NASA's next Mars rover to detect water-bearing minerals buried underneath the rover.
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October 18, 2011
Gale crater has been sitting just below the equator of Mars, minding its own business, for at least three and half billion years.
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October 14, 2011
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity, gets ready to be encapsulated and transported to the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Fla., later this month.
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October 10, 2011
Join us for an educator conference surrounding the upcoming launch of the next Mars rover Curiosity. The conference, scheduled for Nov. 25 through 27, 2011, will be filled with standards-aligned, STEM-related, hands-on activities, mission team speakers, a tour of Kennedy Space Center, a potential launch viewing, and image-rich classroom and other learning materials to take home. Register today!
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October 5, 2011
In a "match made for Mars," major components of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory have been connected at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, several weeks before launch.
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September 30, 2011
The Curiosity rover and its spacecraft components are getting readied for launch at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
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September 29, 2011
After an eight-month voyage to Mars, Curiosity will land at the foot of a 3 mile high mountain in a crater named "Gale."
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September 28, 2011
Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA will host a two-day launch Tweetup for 150 of its Twitter followers on Nov. 23 and 25 at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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August 31, 2011
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Project continues to press ahead with launch preparation activities, planning to use additional time before encapsulating the rover in the launch vehicle's nose cone.
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July 22, 2011
Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA's next Mars rover will land at the foot of a layered mountain inside the planet's Gale Crater.
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July 18, 2011
Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA and the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum will host a news conference at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, July 22 to announce the selected landing site for the agency's latest Mars rover.
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June 24, 2011
A new, high-definition animation of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission combines real scenes of Mars with spacecraft events such as landing on Mars and drilling into rocks.
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June 23, 2011
Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA's next Mars rover has completed the journey from its California birthplace to Florida in preparation for launch this fall.
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June 21, 2011
In a series of diving flights, an F/A-18 aircraft at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in California is carrying a test model of the radar for the next landing on Mars.
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June 13, 2011
America's next Mars rover, Curiosity, has been driving and moving its arm during its final weeks at its California birthplace.
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May 31, 2011
The main science imaging instrument on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity combines telephoto and wider-angle full-color cameras to see surroundings in detail and in motion.
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May 24, 2011
During processing of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., an incident occurred on Friday, May 20, involving the spacecraft's back shell.
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May 13, 2011
The aeroshell and cruise stage for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., Thursday night from California and Colorado.
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May 12, 2011
The Spacecraft Assembly Facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has birthed robotic explorers sent to destinations throughout the solar system over the past five decades.
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April 6, 2011
Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
New images show Curiosity, the rover for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, looking similar to how it will appear after it lands on Mars in August 2012.
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March 25, 2011
Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
The main camera instrument for the next rover to Mars will use a pair of cameras with different focal lengths, already installed and tested, rather than twin zoom cameras.
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March 18, 2011
A space-simulation chamber at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., is temporary home this month for the Curiosity rover, which will land on Mars next year.
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March 17, 2011
Governments of the United States and Spain saluted collaboration in the Mars Science Laboratory mission with an agreement-signing ceremony today, March 17, in Madrid.
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February 18, 2011
NASA's next Mars rover, Curiosity, will take a next generation "hands-on" look at rocks and soils to determine the chemical makeup near its landing zone.
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January 18, 2011
One of the jobs for the biggest science instrument on NASA's next Mars rover will be to check for the carbon-based molecular building blocks of life.
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