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Mars mission team members are trying to figure out what happens next after a tiny experimental helicopter failed to get off the ground during its fourth attempt to fly over the Martian surface.

NASA officials said Saturday they’re targeting Monday for a historic flight of a small helicopter on Mars that was postponed last weekend due to a technical problem.

A milestone moment years in the making is coming up in April when a tiny helicopter is expected to launch from the Perseverance rover and take flight above the surface of Mars.

President Joe Biden on Thursday congratulated the NASA team responsible for last month’s successful landing of an unmanned rover on Mars for giving the country a “dose of confidence” at a moment when the nation’s reputation as a scientific leader has been tattered by the coronavirus pandemic.

NASA shared footage captured by the Perseverance rover as it landed on Mars last week.

NASA has released the first close-up picture that captures a rover descending to the surface of Mars

NASA has faced many challenges over the years, but COVID-19 was one of the biggest. NBCLX storyteller Cody Broadway spoke with Mars 2020 Deputy Project Manager Matt Wallace about the “existential” threat that the pandemic posed to its Mars mission.

LX News host Ashley Holt visited Space Center Houston for a closer look at the space missions that made the Mars Perseverance Rover landing possible — and that will help pave the way to put a human on the red planet next.

NASA landed its fifth rover on Mars Thursday after a nearly seven-month journey capped by a 12,000-mph blast through the Martian atmosphere and a gentle touchdown.

Alyssa Carson joins NBCLX to discuss where her love of space comes from and the moment she realized she wanted to be an astronaut.

NASA’s team of scientists who navigated the landing of rover Perseverance on the surface of Mars broke out in applause as the device made contact with the planet after being in orbit since July.

The car-size rover Perseverance, launched in July 2020, successfully touched down on the Mars surface Thursday afternoon becoming NASA’s fifth rover to land on the red planet. The success kicks off the agency’s most ambitious mission yet to examine whether life ever existed on Mars.

Retired astronaut Scott Kelly tested the limits of putting humans in space when he spent a year in orbit to test the effects on his own body. As NASA’s Perseverance rover prepared to touch down on Mars, Kelly joined LX News to talk about the goal of getting a human mission to Mars by 2030.

NASA’s Perseverance rover touched down on Mars in a feat of human engineering and science. But… how does it work? LX News host Tabitha Lipkin helps explain how the rover is built to fulfill its mission to explore Mars and collect samples to return to Earth.

Watch NBCLX’s live coverage of the Perseverance rover’s landing as it touches down on the red planet and starts its mission to search for traces of ancient life.

The Perseverance Rover isn’t the only thing landing on Mars Thursday. Hitching a ride on the rover is the first helicopter designed to fly on another planet.

A NASA rover streaked toward a landing on Mars on Thursday in the riskiest step yet in an epic quest to bring back rocks that could answer whether life ever existed on the red planet.

Chloe Sackier is an EDL systems engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who deals with the “shortest but most dangerous phase of the mission to Mars.” That’s the Perseverance rover’s entry, descent and landing, or EDL. Sackier joined LX News to explain what makes that part of the landing process so nerve-wracking, and what scientists hope to find if it...

NASA’s Perseverance rover will attempt to touch down on Mars on Thursday in one of the trickiest landings ever attempted. Former NASA astronaut Michael J. Massimino joined LX News to explain what makes this mission such a challenge, and why the payoff could be so exciting.

NASA’s Perseverance rover, which will investigate signs of past microbial life on Mars, is set to attempt a landing on Thursday