NASA recently tested the first and second stage engines of the Mars Ascent Vehicle that will be used for a sample return mission. ... Photos show what it was like to eat at McDonald's in the 1970s.

By 1998, the Mars Ascent Vehicle ... This U.S. Navy photo shows a fighter jet with a PILOT solid-propellant microsatellite launcher slung under its wing. The first stage, ...

A development motor based on the second-stage solid rocket motor design for NASA’s Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) undergoes testing on March 29 at Northrop Grumman’s facility in Elkton, Maryland.

The so-called Mars Ascent Vehicle, or MAV, has been designed to fly to Mars, receive Martian rock samples from a rover and blast back into space. ... Photo courtesy of NASA. Read More.

If all goes to plan, the Mars Ascent Vehicle will be the first rocket ever to launch on another planet. NASA has test-fired rocket motors as part of the development of an ascent vehicle designed ...

The Mars Ascent Vehicle contract has a potential value of $194 million. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA's Mars sample ...

Moreover, the shape design of Mars ascent vehicles (MAV) is the key link of the Mars take-off and ascent technology. Currently, countries all over the world mainly adopt two routes for the shape ...

Venables: Initial development and testing of the Mars Ascent Vehicle is set at around $250 M. Given the current Fiscal Year 2014 budget, ...

According to the white paper, China’s Space Activities in 2016, the Mars sample return mission represents one of the main tasks to be implemented in China’s deep space exploration field […] ...

The Mars Ascent Vehicle Integrated System cost-plus-fixed-fee contract includes the design and development of the vehicle’s ground support equipment, NASA said Tuesday.

NASA has awarded Northrop Grumman a contract worth up to US$84.5 million to help develop the Mars Ascent Propulsion System, which will be used as part of a plan to return samples collected by the ...