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LONDON, July 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Jaguar Land Rover [http://www.landrover.com/gb/en/lr ] (JLR) will take a starring role in the 'Make it in Great Britain' exhibition at the Science Museum, which was opened this morning by Business Secretary Vince Cable and Business Minister Mark Prisk. The exhibition runs from 24 July until 9 September and will demonstrate the very best of British manufacturing. JLR beat competition from hundreds of UK companies to a place at the...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online One of the most complicated landings ever performed on Mars will be taking place 354-million-miles away on August 5 at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and it will be supported by the European Space Agency's Mars Express. NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) will be delivering the newest rover late-night on August 5, after encountering what has been tagged as "seven minutes of terror." The spacecraft will enter the Mars atmosphere...
[Watch the Video] Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online NASA, busy planning for the landing of its Curiosity rover on the Red Planet in August 2012, is perhaps getting into the Olympic spirit after the Mars Exploration Rover team announced Wednesday that another of its rovers, Opportunity, is on par to complete a Martian marathon. When Opportunity landed on Mars in 2004, it was only planned to travel a mere 2,000 feet (less than a half mile). Yet, 8 years after its...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online A game just released by Microsoft gives users an experience that NASA engineers will have to deal with in real life: landing the new Curiosity rover on the Red Planet. Microsoft created the Mars Rover Landing game and made it available for download for free on Monday through Xbox Live. "We went to some pains to reflect some authentic details in the game experience," Jeff Norris of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory told USA Today....
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online NASA's newest member to the Mars rover family is nearing the end of its journey through space, but its hurdles are all but over. The space agency said that getting the Curiosity rover to the Martian surface will be all but easy on August 5. "The Curiosity landing is the hardest NASA mission ever attempted in the history of robotic planetary exploration," John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate,...
WASHINGTON, July 16, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's most advanced planetary rover is on a precise course for an early August landing beside a Martian mountain to begin two years of unprecedented scientific detective work. However, getting the Curiosity rover to the surface of Mars will not be easy. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) "The Curiosity landing is the hardest NASA mission ever attempted in the history of robotic planetary exploration,"...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online As Curiosity continues to trot its way through space towards Mars, a NASA official acknowledged that the mission could still face trouble. NASA's new rover is expected to reach the surface of the Red Planet on August 6, but just because the mission has found successes so far doesn't mean the mission is foolproof. One thing Doug McCuistion, the head of NASA's Mars Exploration Program, told attendees at the Farnborough Airshow was...
Media representatives are invited to a briefing on Tuesday, July 10 at 9 a.m. BST at the 2012 Farnborough International Airshow in Farnborough, England. NASA and industry officials will discuss the importance of the space program and the role of cost-efficient product development in the emerging new era of space travel and exploration. Doug McCuistion, director of NASA's Mars Exploration Program at NASA Headquarters, Washington, and Siegfried Russwurm, CEO of Siemens Industry Sector,...
WASHINGTON, July 6, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Media representatives are invited to a briefing on Tuesday, July 10 at 9 a.m. BST at the 2012 Farnborough International Airshow in Farnborough, England. NASA and industry officials will discuss the importance of the space program and the role of cost-efficient product development in the emerging new era of space travel and exploration. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) Doug McCuistion, director of NASA's...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online According to a new study to be published in Geophysical Research Letters, NASA's new Curiosity rover may be capable of digging deep enough to find evidence of ancient life on Mars. The findings suggest optimal depths and locations to probe for organic molecules like those that compose living organisms could be reached through the Curiosity rover, which is expected to land on the Red Planet on August 5, 2012. If there is any evidence...
