Almost three decades ago, Americans were awed by the pitch-perfect airbag-assisted landing and the deploying of the rover Sojourner David Kindy - Correspondent Once Pathfinder bounced to a stop, the ...

When a daring team of engineers put a lander and the first rover on the Red Planet a quarter century ago, they changed how the world explores. On a July evening in 1997, Jennifer Trosper drove home ...

According to MailOnline, while carrying out its first Red Plant rover in 1997, a NASA probe landed in a part of an inland sea, where floods once decimated the land. The first rover could have seen the ...

Millions of viewers watched in fascination in July 1997 as the Mars "rover" Sojourner (named after Sojourner Truth) maneuvered around the Red Planet's surface like an interplanetary dune buggy, ...

Executives from Wind River (Hall 5B, B9) are celebrating the 10 June launch of the first of two Mars Exploration Rovers, NASA's Spirit spacecraft, powered by the Alameda, California company's ...