During a virtual roundtable with journalists and space aficionados staged by the Mars ... to shuttle astronauts from lunar orbit down to the polar region of the Moon in a series of Artemis ...

Space Rider (Fig. 2), a reusable spacecraft that’s similar to the Air Force’s tiny X-37 space shuttle ... be tested for use on future missions to the Moon or Mars. According to the ESA ...

Nasa, with the support of the European Space Agency, aims to send humans to the Moon this decade. Moreover this Artemis project is touted as a precursor to human missions to Mars, the red planet ...

The temperature was predicted to be a record low for a Space Shuttle launch ... Commander Dick Scobee, Pilot Michael Smith, Mission Specialists Ellison Onizuka, Judith Resnik and Ronald McNair.

Still, the U.S. and China have already raised the possibility of crewed trips to Mars in ... enough that its mission was prematurely terminated. And, in 1985, a failed space-shuttle experiment ...

The mission's spacecraft launched in October 2024 and will rendezvous with Dimorphos, the slammed asteroid, in 2026. But this March, it will also have a quick pop-in with Mars, closest approach at ...

As expected, the billionaire astronaut—and likely future administrator of NASA—is focused on Mars and the private sector.

That mission is known as NS-30, because it will be the 30th overall launch of Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket-capsule combo.

Should it continue the Artemis program and establish a lunar base, or shift its focus directly to Mars? While using the Moon ...

"Cartilage damage is a really major issue that space agencies need to address despite how very poorly understood it is." ...

Footage of clouds rolling over Mars were released this week by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Is it possible that humans ...

However, the research community and international space agencies are cautious about the consequences of longer missions, such as a flight to Mars. The eye-health effects of prolonged exposure to ...