Mission To Mars

• China successfully lands unmanned spacecraft on Mars: state media

  The Tianwen-1 spacecraft landed on a site on the Southern Utopia Plain, making China the third space-faring nation after the United States and Russia to land on the Red Planet.

  Science

  May 14, 2021
  
• China successfully launches fast-tracked mission to land rover on Mars

  The Tianwen-1 launch comes as the United States plans to launch Perseverance, its most sophisticated Mars rover ever, next week.

  Science

  Jul 23, 2020
  
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• Spacecraft gets ready for Mars launch: NASA, China and UAE hope to find signs of life

  The U.S., for its part, is dispatching a six-wheeled rover the size of a car, named Perseverance, to collect rock samples that will be brought back to Earth for analysis in about a decade.

  Science

  Jul 13, 2020
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• 5 Montreal stories guaranteed to make you smile this week: August 3

  A mission to Mars might seem only plausible on the big screen, but plans for the eventual journey are in the works.

  Canada

  Aug 3, 2018
• Winston Churchill predicted moon landing, mused about aliens in newly discovered article

  One of Britain's most influential and respected statesmen was also a science buff who mused about the existence of extraterrestrial life in his spare time, a newly unearthed document reveals.

  Politics

  Feb 16, 2017