Mariner 4 Credit: NASA According to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the Institute of Technology, one of the greatest early successes of the American space program was the Mariner 4 mission that journeyed to Mars. The spacecraft made its closest approach to...
Above: Press members get an up-close look at the LDSD flight-test vehicle that will be tested on Kauai Island at NASA-JPL on March 31. Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech. How did NASA land a 2,000 pound, car-sized robotic rover on the surface of Mars? Part of their success lay...
