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Big NASA Update – The Titan Landing Plan Has Just Changed

NASA’s mission to Saturn’s moon Titan is moving forward faster than expected - and the latest update reveals exciting new tech, mission goals, and a confirmed timeline. With its thick atmosphere and ...
The Johns Hopkins News-Letter

Erin Sutton on the development of NASA's Dragonfly for Titan exploration

Erin Sutton, flight dynamics model validation lead for NASA’s Dragonfly mission, visited to the Laboratory for Computational ...
Los Angeles Times

Saturn’s moon looked like a snowy Utah landscape in my mind. The reality is just as compelling

Twenty years ago today, I watched TV coverage of a probe descending toward the surface of Titan, a moon of Saturn, while outside my home in Utah snow dusted a rocky mountain outcrop I’d nicknamed ...
Los Angeles Daily News

Peter Theisinger, ‘titan of Mars program’ at JPL, dies at 78

Peter Theisinger raised the IQ of any room he entered. The man considered a giant at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who worked on missions to six planets and landed three NASA rovers on Mars, has ...
Los Angeles Times

Mars again? New InSight mission beats out Titan and a comet landing

Curiosity just landed and, guess what: NASA wants to do it all over again. InSight, a mission to study the interior of Mars, has been approved by NASA with a planned launch of March 2016. This wasn’t ...