At this point, sending probes to Mars has almost become routine, but the ESCAPADE mission is showing that there's always a ...

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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 Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, mission will ...

The three astronauts on the mission to be the first humans on Mars don’t even get to the surface before the trouble starts. They enter the Martian atmosphere wrong, half crash-land in a spot not quite ...

Near-surface water ice could supply essential resources for future human exploration on the Red Planet. Before sending people ...

Then again, the good news is that Musk is the one leading this charge, so when he leaves Earth for Mars, he's not going to be coming back. It's almost a biological certainty that a trip there, and ...

Robert Zubrin, who has coauthored hundreds of papers and laid out several blueprints as to how to settle on Mars, told Agence France-Presse in an interview that Musk is “absolutely instrumental in ...

On the journey to Mars, one rule stands out: Expect the unexpected. Medical self-sufficiency and adaptability are essential for survival in space. Bergita Ganse, MD, PhD, from Saarland University, in ...

Humanity must work together or else, Peter Sarsgaard (Dead Man Walking, Boys Don’t Cry) told reporters during a Saturday roundtable interview conducted as part of the 59th edition of the Karlovy Vary ...

And only people can accomplish the most valuable “job” that can be done in space - to create a backup civilisation on Mars. Click to expand... How many times does this bullshit reason need to be ...