Mars is still out of reach for a manned mission, let alone actual colonization, but it’s loomed for years as a natural next ...
In August 2007, scientists behind the Phoenix mission successfully launched a lander on a nine-month voyage to Mars. The Phoenix was the first spacecraft to probe the Martian arctic, landing near 70 ...
When NASA sends the first Mars Rover on the first stage of its voyage to the Red Planet – scheduled for Sunday, June 8 – children throughout the world will be able to follow the exciting expedition in ...
SpaceX is aiming to launch “about five” uncrewed Starship voyages to Mars in two years’ time, according to a post on X (formerly Twitter) by CEO Elon Musk on Sunday. Musk said that if the uncrewed ...
On March 2, 2016, at around 9 A.M. local time, in Kazakhstan, Scott Kelly plunged through the Earth’s atmosphere in a Soyuz spacecraft travelling at seventeen thousand miles an hour. As expected, ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The all-male crew of a mock spaceship played a video action game to cool down when tensions rose during a 17-month isolation study simulating a voyage to Mars. In their cramped, ...