Mars Exploration Rover 25, 2011, bringing the elapsed mission time to 6 years 2 months 19 days, or over 25 times the original planned mission duration. In recognition of the vast amount of scientific information amassed by both rovers, two asteroids have been named in their honor: 37452 Spirit and 39382 Opportunity. The mission is managed for NASA by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which designed, built, and is operating the rovers. On January 24, 2014, NASA reported that current studies by the remaining rover "Opportunity" as well as by the newer Mars Science Laboratory rover "Curiosity" will now be searching for evidence of
Mission: Earth, Voyage to the Home Planet and Jones later produced another collaborative work, "Scholastic Encyclopedia of the United States at War", which was published in 1998. Jones wrote another book about his experiences in space, "Sky Walking: An Astronaut's Memoir", which was published in 2006. In "Mission: Earth, Voyage to the Home Planet", astronaut Thomas David Jones recounts his experiences studying the Earth during his first mission with the United States space agency NASA. Jones' space mission lasted eleven days. Jones was a member of the crew of the Space Shuttle "Endeavour", which left Earth in April 1994. The mission was intended to provide the Space