Some NASA officials say cold food storage is one of the biggest hurdles for long-term space missions.

A special alloy made at Haynes International in Kokomo was used on the Sky Crane thrusters that lowered NASA's Perseverance rover onto the planet

Later this month, NASA expects to land a rover on Mars for a mission that experts say could help us understand how rare life is in the universe.

Purdue professor Marshall Porterfield worked at NASA, teaching astronauts about living in restricted environments such as the International Space Station. The skills are surprisingly transferable to Indiana's stay-at-home order.

Indiana has about $900 million invested in the aerospace industry and experts believe that number can grow.

Throughout the Apollo missions, NASA astronauts brought back more than 2,000 rock and soil samples from six landing sites.

The Resilient ExtraTerrestrial Habitats institute is one of two new programs recently announced by NASA.

The new institute is a partnership with the University of Connecticut, Harvard University and the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Opportunity surprised many by providing information from Mars for nearly 15 years. NASA ended attempts at communication Wednesday after more than six months of silence from the robot.

Mark Geyer was born in Indianapolis and received his bachelors and masters degrees in aeronautics at Purdue University.