It only takes a few minutes to get to space! Rockets hit the boundary of space, approximately 100 km above Earth, in around 8-10 minutes. It takes at most a couple of hours to get to the ISS in orbit.
Mars is quietly turning into a long-distance proving ground, and the vehicle leading the pack is not a dune buggy but a ...
NASA's rover on Mars has had enough of hanging out at the bottom of a crater. The six-wheeled Perseverance has begun its ascent to break out of its confines -- and has quite a way to go. Once it gets ...