Alyssa Carson from Baton Rouge already goes by the callsign 'NASA Blueberry' - despite not yet having an affiliation with NASA ...

Humans Have Been Going to Mars for 60 Years, But They've Never Seen It Like This Before. Published: 29 Nov 2023, 16:01 UTC • By: Daniel Patrascu. 9 photos. Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

Going from (maybe, possibility, extremely optimistically) launching an uncrewed test flight in 2026, to getting actual humans to Mars within the next 10 years? Not a chance.

Former NASA astronaut and Space Shuttle commander Eileen Collins is skeptical about Musk’s timeline for crewed Mars missions. “There is no way a human will be going to Mars in that timeframe ...

However, the mission can't simply launch whenever the crews and technology are ready. Scott Hubbard ran the agency's Mars program from 2000 to 2001, served as director of its Ames Research Center ...

Newman says NASA, which has had five partners from 15 nations on the International Space Station, is seeking more collaborators, both international and commercial, for the Journey to Mars: “It ...

Proponents of going to Mars see peril and opportunity in Elon Musk's close relationship with Trump. Experts say just getting Americans back to the moon in the near future will be challenging enough.

SpaceX’s Starship is scheduled to go to Mars late next year with Tesla’s humanoid robot Optimus. Elon Musk suggested that human missions could commence by 2029 or 2031 if initial landings are ...

That might be a SpaceX-specific focus, as Musk has been promising that Starship will take humans to Mars. For example, in 2016, Musk stated that the first human on Mars would get there in 2024 .

If humans do go to Mars in this century, it will be because those on Earth are willing to expend enough resources to overcome these obstacles. At present, there is only modest public support for ...

CNN: Can humans settle Mars in the near term? KW: Musk is saying that in the next 30 years, we’re going to have a million people on Mars. No way that you could scale up to a million people on ...