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March 14, 2016

Rocket blasts off on Russia-Europe mission seeking life on Mars
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) March 14, 2016
Two robotic spacecraft on Monday began a seven-month journey to Mars as part of a European-Russian unmanned space mission to sniff out leads to life on the Red Planet. Russia's Proton rocket carrying the spacecraft launched into an overcast sky at the Russian-operated Baikonur cosmodrome in the Kazakh steppe at 0931 GMT according to plan, the Russian space agency Roscosmos and the European Space Agency (ESA) said. Roscosmos said the launch had taken place "successfully". ExoMars 2016, a c ... read more

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