The mirrors for NASA's Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope are being installed and aligned, and work on other spacecraft components is accelerating. NASA's new asteroid-hunting spacecraft ...

The twin to the Mars Polar Lander spacecraft, Phoenix was supposed to travel to Mars in 2001 as the Mars Surveyor spacecraft. They were originally part of the "better, faster, cheaper" program ...

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The agency announced on Friday (Feb. 21) that it has selected Elon Musk's company to launch its NEO Surveyor spacecraft, ...

The three-legged Surveyor 3 (an engineering model will be on display in the National Air and Space Museum's new Destination Moon gallery) had a TV camera for photographing its surroundings and a ...

Learn about NASA's past missions to mars » From an overall design standpoint, it is twin to the Mars Polar Lander spacecraft and was supposed to travel to Mars in 2001 as the Mars Surveyor ...

My father, Frank Mellberg, was the Surveyor project manager at Chicago-based Bell & Howell, which designed and built the zoom lens of the spacecraft’s camera. The sophisticated lens was the ...

A simulated view of Mars as it would be seen from the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft (Unsplash via NASA) (CN) — Scientists have discovered the longest organic molecules ever found on Mars — carbon ...

Unknown Speaker: “Surveyor 6 was launched from the moon about ten feet off the surface. The spacecraft landed again eight feet from its original position. The spacecraft’s rocket engines were ...

Although the threat has now diminished, the incident highlights the importance of asteroid surveillance, open data, and upcoming space missions like NEO Surveyor. NASA has selected SpaceX for the ...