BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – It’s the summer of Mars. In the past few weeks, two different spacecraft have launched to the red planet and…
BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – It’s the summer of Mars.
In the past few weeks, two different spacecraft have launched to the red planet and on July 30, one more was sent out.
After the United Arab Emirates and China successfully launched their spacecraft to Mars earlier this month, the United States has gotten in on the action.
United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket, equipped with NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover, launched Thursday morning from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
Perseverance would be NASA’s fifth rover to reach the Martian surface.
Perseverance will bring the space agency one step closer in taking humans to Mars – an initiative that’s been a long time coming.
“Perseverance is… the bridge between science and human exploration that demonstrates how the two can support and reinforce each other,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA’s Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate during a media teleconference last week.
