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The Mars Science Laboratory, as it's called, is currently on a 354 million-mile trek to the red planet and should arrive in August of 2012.

Mars Water: Opportunity Rover Finds Gypsum, 'Slam-Dunk' Evidence That Water Flowed On Red Planet (PHOTOS) 2011

The launch on November 26th began "an 8½-month, 354 million-mile journey... in which NASA's six-wheeled, one-armed wonder, Curiosity, will reach Mars next summer and use its jackhammer drill, rock-zapping laser machine and other devices to search for evidence that Earth's next-door neighbor might once have been home to the teeniest forms of life."

James M. Gentile: Space Exploration Reaches New Milestones - for Technology and Jobs James M. Gentile 2011

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A rover of "monster truck" proportions zoomed toward Mars on an 8 1/2-month, 354 million-mile journey Saturday, the biggest, best equipped robot ever sent to explore another planet.

NASA Mars Curiosity Launch: Huge Rover On Its Way To Mars 2011

-- Shuttle Discovery and its astronauts returned safely to Earth on Tuesday after making a rare flyover of America's heartland to wrap up their 15-day, 6 million-mile journey to the International Space Station.

Space Shuttle Landing: PHOTOS Of Discovery Touchdown Today 2010

-- Shuttle Discovery and its astronauts returned safely to Earth on Tuesday after making a rare flyover of America's heartland to wrap up their 15-day, 6 million-mile journey to the International Space Station.

Space Shuttle Landing: PHOTOS Of Discovery Touchdown Today 2010

Ed Weiler, head of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, revealed the surprising answer at a news conference next to the mock-up: Astronauts might actually make the million-mile hike to service the telescope.

NASA Watch: Keith Cowing: May 2007 Archives 2007

Also, the beginning of a 422 million-mile journey, the unmanned Phoenix Mars Lander blasted off six hours ago from Cape Canaveral.

CNN Transcript Aug 4, 2007 2007

LEMON: A hundred and ninety-five days in space, 5.8 million-mile mission.

CNN Transcript Jun 22, 2007 2007

America has a very undervalued asset in the million-mile pipeline grid that delivers natural gas to towns and cities, and directly to over 60 million American homes.

It’s Not ‘Star Wars’ 2007

Ed Weiler, head of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, revealed the surprising answer at a news conference next to the mock-up: Astronauts might actually make the million-mile hike to service the telescope.

NASA Watch: Space Science News: May 2007 Archives 2007