In the first ever WeMartians live video webcast, Jake is joined by co-host Tanya Harrison and special guests Alexandra Pontefract, Nathan Williams, and Phillip Hargrove to experience the launch of the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover....
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It’s the Summer of Mars, and in between the larger space agencies of the United States and China vying to put the next rover on the surface, a small, upstart space agency in the United...
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80 – The Summer of Mars
The Summer of Mars is here! Three missions are launching to Mars in the next few weeks from three different space agencies. We’ve got the definitive preview of these missions, from UAE’s Mars Hope, to...
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NASA’s Mars2020 Rover is set to launch this summer on an Atlas V rocket from the United Launch Alliance. But it is no trivial payload, and a lot of work goes into preparing a rocket...
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NASA’s Mars2020 Rover is set to launch this summer to kick off an intense series of missions set to bring back a sample from Mars. But retrieving these samples is no small task. The University...
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The ATLO phase of a planetary mission (Assembly, Test and Launch Operations) is the most intense of any part of its development. Amid a global pandemic, Perseverance’s time at it is even more remarkable. NASA...
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From the Blog
Next week, the Explore Mars organization is putting on the their Humans to Mars (H2M) Summit. It’s an annual get together to explore where we’re at with getting people to the Red Planet. Thanks to…
We’re just a few days away from the launch of NASA’s next flagship mission to Mars – the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover! Curiosity’s successor is set to kick off an ambitious Mars Sample Return campaign,…
About six weeks ago, through our joint Off-Nominal Podcast, my friend Anthony Colangelo from Main Engine Cut Off and I decided to act and do our part in fighting systemic racism in space and STEM….
For the last two weeks I have been watching the events surrounding the murder of George Floyd, the Black Lives Matter movement, and demonstrations against police violence in the United States, Canada, and around the…