Nearly a year after NASA's Ingenuity helicopter crash landed on Mars following an extended ... The result was a "hard" sideways landing on a steep slope that spun Ingenuity about so fast its ...

Safely and prudently sending a manned mission that arrives and lands before Trump leaves office is possible. Every 26 months there are launch windows to send missions from Earth to Mars. SpaceX is ...

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 ...

Mars has long been an object ... On its latest mission in June it landed the craft for the first time in the Indian Ocean. "No matter what happens with landing success, SpaceX will increase ...

There is a lot of fuel management issues for a SpaceX Mars landing. This is reviewed in the video below. If there was a fuel depot created on Deimos (Mars Moon) then it would become far easier and ...

Depending on the success of the unmanned missions, the first manned missions will be launched two or four years later. Musk has previously set ambitious timelines for getting humanity to Mars.

Even though he had successfully led the entry, descent, and landing (EDL) teams for three Mars rover missions, he said the prospect of landing a human mission on the Red Planet might be impossible.