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A rather historic scientific achievement will be unfolding in a matter of just a few days, as Nasa will be launching an unmanned aerial vehicle from the rover that recently touched down on the red planet.

Space Exploration Technologies Corporation is the longer name.

The new YouTube video does a great job combining photos from the Mars rovers Curiosity. Opportunity, and Spirit.

On their next trip to the moon astronauts will be getting a new wardrobe.

NASA understands that we love what they are doing and, even if we can't be astronauts, we want to be part of what they are doing.

We have been pretty lucky so far this winter - since we don't live in the North East and haven't had to deal with a Polar Vortex! We haven't had sub-zero temperatures or even very many days of frosted windows. So how cold is it really in America?

We all have days when we want to just leave it all behind, but moving to Mars seems a little extreme.  According to Sun News a company called, Mars One announced they're offering free trips to Mars in 2023.  But there's a catch . . .

After an eight month journey, NASA’s multi-billion dollar rover Curiosity made a successful landing on Mars early this morning. Mission controllers cheered after the six-wheeled, one-ton machine made a perilous seven-minute landing involving a parachute, rocket pack and sky crane.

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover made touchdown on the red planet last night utilizing an incredible Rube Goldberg landing system that included a parachute, retro-rockets, and a sky crane. Amazingly, it all worked perfectly and Curiosity is now telemetry and images back to Earth. But it's an image from another NASA spacecraft that has taken our breath away today.

Early Monday morning, NASA’s $2.5 billion Curiosity rover safely landed on Mars after eight months of interplanetary travel. The car-sized, one-ton rover now begins a two-year mission of exploration and discovery as it roams the surface of the red planet.

ABC News reports a radical ideal has been proposed in the Journal of Cosmology: Send astronauts to explore Mars, but leave them there to colonize it. Would you boldly go to Mars if you knew you would never come home?