LOS ANGELES – Don Cheadle loved playing a marooned, Robinson Crusoe-like astronaut in Disney’s $90 million space adventure “Mission to Mars. But a Hollywood set dressed up like the Red ...

In response to the 1993 failure of the Mars Observer mission—a billion-dollar, decade-in-the-making probe that mysteriously lost contact with ground controllers just before it was scheduled to ...

Mars 3 was meant to unleash a small rover, but contact was lost ... “I don’t think the landing got much coverage for two reasons — the Soviets were pretty secretive about the mission while ...