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NASA’s Mars Helicopter Completes Flight Tests

By Alana Johnson | NASA, DC Agle | NASA-Jet Propulsion Lab on Apr 1, 2019 Featured, Science/Education

Since the Wright brothers first took to the skies of Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, Dec. 17, 1903, first flights have been important milestones in the life of any vehicle designed for air travel. After all, it’s one thing to design an aircraft and make it fly on paper — or computer. It is quite […]

Ten Thousandth Near-Earth Object Unearthed in Space

By DC Agle | NASA-Jet Propulsion Lab on Jun 25, 2013 Science/Education

More than 10,000 asteroids and comets that can pass near Earth have now been discovered. The 10,000th near-Earth object, asteroid 2013 MZ5, was first detected on the night of June 18, 2013, by the Pan-STARRS-1 telescope, located on the 10,000-foot (convert) summit of the Haleakala crater on Maui. Managed by the University of Hawaii, the […]