Militarized Mars Rover (D3 concept sketch). You know they wanted to. On 20 Aug 1977, the United States launched the space probe Voyager 2 on a mission to study Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus…
death probe
“Have you looked at the sky lately?” (Part 1) The Bionic Man and America’s space program: Did a Soviet Union “death probe” provide the technology for NASA’s Mars rovers?
This is the latest installment of Damper Three’s award-wanting investigative series, The True Costs of the Six Million Dollar Man, which seeks to unearth the truth behind the development and use…
Comparing the most successful space rovers
With the United States and China both actively exploring Mars with high tech rovers, we here at Damper 3 have collected an extensive list* of the strengths and weaknesses of the most…
An in-depth look at China’s Zhurong Mars Rover
On 14 May 2021, China became only the second nation to successfully land a remote-controlled rover on the surface of Mars.* Damper 3’s scieneticians have poured over everything we could find in…
A closer look at the Perserv…the Persevar…Per…the newest Mars Rover
On 18 February 2021, after seven months of space travel, the Perseverance Rover landed on Mars. Just this week, the first Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, was unveiled and is expected to fly its…
Exposing the Bionic Man, Part 3: The Unspoken Costs
In part one of this series, we discussed the financial costs of the bionic man program started by the US Government during the 1970s. In this, the third in our groundbreaking and…