Landing humans on Mars requires Entry, Descent, and Landing (EDL) capabilities beyond what are currently available and in use. The largest payload delivered to the Martian surface to date has been the ...

When the novel sky-crane EDL approach began taking shape in the early 2000s as the only way to land a heavy rover on Mars, it ...

The Mars2020 Perseverance Rover took about 8 years to complete here on Earth. Built at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. Then it was shipped to Kennedy Space Center in ...