Blue Origin aims for Mars in 2024 with twin NASA spacecraft | Space
NASA gave Blue Origin a task order to launch a Mars mission known as Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE). The agency announced the order in a statement (opens in new tab) published Thursday (Feb. 9).
The twin spacecraft should launch in late 2024 aboard Blue Origin's forthcoming New Glenn rocket, assuming the booster is ready in time, and will bring the company beyond the suborbital realms where it now flies.
Blue Origin awarded NASA launch contract for Mars mission | Reuters
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WASHINGTON, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Blue Origin, the private space company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, was awarded its first interplanetary NASA contract on Thursday to launch a mission next year to study the magnetic field around Mars, the U.S. space agency and company said.
NASA celebrates Black history and space at Smithsonian event | Space
In eighth grade, Leland Melvin was a part-time janitor at a Virginia bank to make some extra cash for his family.
Melvin, who later became a pro football player and one of NASA 's Black astronauts, recalled once greeting a senior bank official while cleaning the bathroom, in the late 1970s.
'Black history is American history': NASA celebrates African Americans and space achievements at ...
In eighth grade, Leland Melvin was a part-time janitor at a Virginia bank to make some extra cash for his family.
Black History Month is a time for Americans to reflect on the successes and challenges the African-American population has faced over the centuries, from enslavement to discrimination to "Jim Crow" laws that enforced racial segregation.
🛰 A mission to Mars in now part of NASA's VADR contract! @BlueOrigin will launch ESCAPADE, the Escape and Plasma A… https://t.co/z7QZeY8Adz NASA_LSP (from Kennedy Space Center, FL) Fri Feb 10 14:59:24 +0000 2023
NASA awards Blue Origin with a contract to launch the ESCAPADE mission to Mars, on a New Glenn rocket targeting lat… https://t.co/39iMOSN4mv thesheetztweetz (from Brooklyn, NY) Thu Feb 09 23:12:46 +0000 2023
NASA has picked Blue Origin's New Glenn to launch its ESCAPADE Mars mission in late 2024. ESCAPADE is a pair of sma… https://t.co/cO6pKVu4mH jeff_foust (from Rockville, Maryland, USA) Thu Feb 09 23:23:11 +0000 2023
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