Cramped quarters, no privacy, and the stress of working together every day. Psychology, more than aerospace engineering, may be the key to sending human crews to Mars. This is Mars on Earth, a station that was built to help us learn how to live on t...
New findings from an American space rover on Mars show that much of the planet might have been too salty to sustain life. But scientists are not ruling out the possibility of life altogether, as Sky's Alistair Bunkall reports Of all the planets in t...
By Paul Sisco Washington 14 May 2008 The U.S. space agency's Mars probe is within weeks of landing near the Red Planet's north pole. NASA scientists in Washington recently talked about what they call the mission's seven minutes of terror. That is how...
Believe it or not, astrobiologist Penny Boston is searching for life on Mars by dropping deep into this heart of darkness. This is a lava tube, a subterranean cave formed by underground lava flows during volcanic eruptions that occurred thousands of...
By Naomi Schwarz Dakar 15 January 2007 Tear gas, thrown rocks, and a handful of arrests heated up the scene in Guinea's capital, Conakry, as a nationwide strike against the government entered a second week. Naomi Schwarz reports for VOA from our West...
By David McAlary Washington 04 January 2007 Two U.S. robotic rovers are entering their fourth year exploring opposite sides of Mars, an unexpected length of time for a mission planned for only three months. Yet, now after three years, the mechanical...
By David McAlary Washington 21 November 2006 The U.S. space agency NASA says its oldest satellite orbiting Mars has probably ended its career. NASA engineers lost contact with it about three weeks ago and are losing hope of ever hearing from it agai...
By Paul Sisco Washington, DC 02 August 2006 watch Viking report An illustration of a Viking landing on the red planet Thirty years after the first successful landing of a robotic probe on Mars by NASA's Viking spacecraft, the search for life on the...
By David McAlary Washington 06 March 2006 The newest American mission to Mars is hurtling toward the red planet, due Friday to examine it in the sharpest detail yet. It will be the largest spacecraft...
Of course, any terraforming is still a long way off. The next few expeditions to Mars will definitely be made by machines. NASA, are sending 2 rovers, capable of travelling over 100 meters a day in se...
