One of the first men to orbit the Moon has told BBC Radio 5 Live that it's "stupid" to plan manned missions to ... to enable a future human landing on Mars. Click here to listen to a special ...

There will be a larger unmanned and possibly manned mission in the 2028-2029 launch window. Starship departs for Mars at the end of next year, carrying Optimus. If those landings go well, then human ...

and the landing platform, a Russian craft named Kazachok. Both are now out of the picture. Related: Europe will issue new ExoMars lander contract in a few months for beleaguered Mars rover ...

and landing (EDL) systems capable of delivering crew and large cargo to the Martian surface." They must also create enough power for an initial crewed Mars mission. There is still a lot of work to ...

The European-Russian ExoMars program represents only the second European attempt to land a craft on Mars, after a failed mission from Britain's Beagle 2 in 2003, according to Reuters. Produced by ...

In the end, Armstrong and Scott heroically righted their craft and made a safe landing. Later Gemini flights repeated the docking and confirmed the viability of the procedure. Gemini astronauts ...

Then, as Astronaut David Scott peered through the window of Apollo 9’s orbiting command module, the speck grew into the most ungainly manned craft ever ... U.S. manned lunar landing might ...

He masterminded the audacious landing of the Curiosity Rover 'on Mars in 2012.' DR. ADAM STELTZNER:I have tried… to describe that, many times, and I fall short. And I fall short because it ...