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Mars, the fourth planet from the sun and the smallest planet in our Solar System, is known by many names across the English-speaking world, including the planet of Mars. In modern English, Mars is known as the planet of...

NASA’s budget is approved by an annual legislative process which starts with a written proposal from the president and ends with bills being enacted by Congress and signed into law by the president. The budget...

A manned mission to Mars is the subject of scientific proposals, space science and aviation engineering for the last hundred years. Some are just plain crazy and others are the very idea of exploring space as we know it...

In China’s first ever Mars mission, the Mars Orbiter spacecraft will explore the Red Planet’s atmosphere. China is currently the third largest space power, and their first robotic mission was a successful...

Space missions are the application of space science and astronomy to explore outer space. While the outer exploration of outer space is primarily done by human astronauts using telescopes with sophisticated cameras, its...

A manned mission to Mars is the topic of intense technological research, aerospace science and military concepts over the past century. Today, robotic space exploration has moved from the domain of scientists to the...

Discovering Mars When you first encounter the planet Mars, it can seem quite intimidating to think of this giant planet at first glance. Mars isn’t always easy to see from the surface of our Earth, and we can only...

In our universe there is only one kind of space: absolute space. Absolute space is where things and events can never change from one position to another, where things cannot be separated from one another; it is an...