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NASA's 'green' planetary test lander crashes Earlier this week NASA safely landed a robotic rover on Mars about 150 million miles away. But on Thursday here on Earth, a test model planetary lander crashed and burned at Kennedy Space Center in Florida just seconds after liftoff. NASA's Morpheus lander in fiery crash at Cape Canaveral MIAMI (Reuters) - NASA'S Project Morpheus lander, an experimental vehicle designed with a view toward future U.S. space missions beyond Earth's orbit, crashed and burst into flames at the Kennedy Space Center in central Florida on Thursday. During a so-called autonomous free-flight test, NASA said the vehicle lifted off the ground successfully but "then experienced a hardware component failure ... NASA Morpheus Lander Crashes During Test Flight For a few moments today, NASA forgot about the successful landing of the Curiosity rover on Mars, and focused on the Morpheus lander, which caught fire and crashed this morning. Curiosity's second day on Mars 'flawless': NASA NASA rover Curiosity's second day on Mars went "flawlessly," NASA said, confirming the antennas, communication links and generator on the $2.5 billion robot are all working well. NASA test planetary lander burns and crashes A prototype NASA lander crashed and burned in a test flight at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA to Propose Flagship Astronomy Mission in 2015 WASHINGTON — NASA plans to wait until 2015 to lay out a proposal for its next big astrophysics mission, which could take the form of a single large spacecraft or a series of smaller craft performing related studies, a senior agency official said July 30. Who is NASA's 'Mohawk Guy'? Bobak Ferdowski, the mission controller for NASA's Curiosity rover, became an overnight superstar thanks to his punk-rock hairdo and anti-corporate vibe NASA releases new Curiosity rover images from Mars NASA released new images of Mars from its Curiosity rover Wednesday, and fixed problems with an onboard antenna. NASA mission gives a peek of rover's Mars journey NASA's latest adventure to Mars has given the world more than just glimpses of a new alien landscape. NASA cheers Mars landing, welcomes new photos NASA cheers Mars landing, welcomes new photos Associated Press Copyright 2012 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 4:00 p.m., Monday, August 6, 2012 (AP) — NASA celebrated the precision landing of a rover on Mars and marveled over the mission's first photographs Monday — grainy, black-and-white images of ...
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