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NASA Phoenix Mission Ready for Mars Landing
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is preparing to end its long journey and begin a three-month mission to taste and sniff fistfuls of Martian soil and buried ice.
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Phoenix Flying True Enough to Skip One Scheduled Adjustment
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander continues on course for its May 25 arrival at Mars.
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NASA Spacecraft Fine Tunes Course For Mars Landing
NASA engineers have adjusted the flight path of the Phoenix Mars Lander, setting the spacecraft on course for its May 25 landing on the Red Planet.
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Spacecraft at Mars Prepare to Welcome New Kid on the Block
Three Mars spacecraft are adjusting their orbits to be over the right place at the right time to listen to NASA's Phoenix lander as it enters the Martian atmosphere on May 25.
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Phoenix: Tasks En Route to Mars Include Course Tweak, Gear Checks
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, launched on Aug. 4 and headed to Mars, fired its four trajectory correction thrusters Wednesday for only the second time.
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Mars-Bound Phoenix Returns First Photo From Trip →
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander spacecraft, launched Aug. 4, is testing its hardware and software as it flies to Mars. A camera mounted on the craft's robotic arm took this test photo showing the scoop at the end of the arm, verifying that the camera works.
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Phoenix: Radar, Other Gear Pass Checkouts
Two crucial tools for a successful landing of America's latest mission to Mars, the radar and UHF radio on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, have passed in-flight checkouts.
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Mars-Bound Phoenix Adjusts Course
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander today accomplished the first and largest of six course corrections planned during the spacecraft's flight from Earth to Mars.
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NASA Spacecraft Heads for Polar Region on Mars
NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission blasted off Saturday, aiming for a May 25, 2008, arrival at the Red Planet and a close-up examination of the surface of the northern polar region.
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Next Departure for Mars Stands Ready to Fly
A NASA robotic explorer equipped to dig up and analyze icy soil on Mars sits atop a 13-story tall stack of rocket engines prepared for liftoff before sunup on Saturday.
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NASA Postpones Phoenix Launch
Friday's launch of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket has been postponed 24 hours. There are two available launch times on Saturday.
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NASA Sets Media Events for Phoenix Launch on Aug. 3
Launch of NASA's Phoenix Mars lander is scheduled for Friday, Aug. 3, from Pad 17-A at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. There are two instantaneous launch times.
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Mars Lander Ready for August Launch to Icy Site
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, the next mission to the surface of Mars, is beginning a new phase in preparation for a launch in August 2007.
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One Image Planned During Descent of Phoenix
Extensive testing of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander in preparation for an August launch has uncovered a potential data-handling problem in time to modify plans for use of a camera during the final minutes of arrival at Mars.
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NASA's Next Mars Lander in Florida
A U.S. Air Force C-17 cargo aircraft carried NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander spacecraft Monday, May 7, from Colorado to Florida, where Phoenix will start a much longer trip in August.
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Pieces of NASA's Next Mars Mission are Coming Together
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, the next mission to the surface of Mars, is beginning a new phase in preparation for a launch in August 2007.
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NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission Gets Thumbs Up for 2007 Launch
NASA has given the green light to a project to put a long-armed lander onto the icy ground of the far-northern martian plains.