perseverance

Remembering Michael. Apollo 11’s command module pilot Michael Collins passes away age 90. Extending Ingenuity. The Martian helicopter gets a mission extensions and new directive to aid it’s rover sibling...

As Perseverance works to convert carbon dioxide in the Martian atmosphere to oxygen in a critical experiment for future crewed missions, Ingenuity flies again – further and longer than the...

As Ingenuity flies for just under forty seconds on Mars, President Biden pledges another $1.5 billion to the NASA coffers, former Shuttle Commander Pamela Melroy receives a nomination to the...

Perseverance lands and begins it's mission to explore the red planet. The European Space Agency is on the hunt for new astronauts, eleven years since it's last search. And the first black hole ever discovered is bigger than thought, thanks to Aussie astronomers.

Professor Flannery is working with the Perseverance team, which is due to land on the Red Planet next week.

Adjunct Professor David Flannery is our guest this week as we gear up for the return of Hayabusa-2. With the Japanese mission leading NASA's Osiris-REx and Perseverance Rover as well as China's Changy'e 5, what can samples returned from around the solar system tell us?