"How do you get to Mars when the launch vehicle is not necessarily going to Mars?" ...

NASA and Elon Musk are racing toward the same destination, but they are not running the same race. While SpaceX talks in terms of the next launch window, NASA is quietly building a layered campaign of ...

Blue Origin scrubbed Sunday’s launch attempt due to poor weather, a cruise ship in restricted waters near the launch site, and ground system issues. The company says the next available launch ...

Musk wants to send the first uncrewed Starship to Mars by the end of 2026, followed by human spaceflights in the years after. The first humans on Mars would be tasked with laying the groundwork to ...

Vox Members got to read this story first. Support independent journalism and get exclusive access to stories like this by becoming a Vox Member today. One day, Mars might become a home to humans. But ...

Musk wants to send the first uncrewed Starship to Mars by the end of 2026, followed by human spaceflights in the years after. The first humans on Mars would be tasked with laying the groundwork to ...

This article originally appeared on The Conversation. Envision a time when hundreds of spacecraft are exploring the solar system and beyond. That’s the future that NASA’s ESCAPADE, or Escape and ...

The idea of a human mission to explore Mars has been studied repeatedly over the past 75 years. More than 1,000 piloted Mars mission studies were conducted inside and outside NASA between about 1950 ...