“This 400,000-square-foot facility at (NASA Johnson Space Center’s) Exploration Park houses the world’s largest indoor Moonscape and Marscape for testing, training, and workforce development to support future space exploration missions,” Vaughn said in its post.

The slowest part of a Mars mission is often not the driving, it is the waiting. A rover can only do so much when every move must be planned from Earth, then checked, then sent back across a gap that can stretch communication delays to between four and 22 minutes one way.

Mars has always felt like a distant neighbor, reachable only after a long, risky cruise through deep space. Now engineers inside NASA are sketching a very different future, one where a nuclear powered spacecraft could sprint to the red planet in roughly a ...

The spacecraft will deliver NASA's Skyfall payload, which is a group of helicopters designed to find subsurface water on Mars.

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Modern space exploration is driven as much by processors as it is by rockets. And it remains the ultimate test of our collective ingenuity.

Space is extremely dangerous, but people can still do more than robotic explorers can – in terms of technical achievements and inspiring public interest.