To nail the presentation, NASA brought von Braun, its most celebrated engineer, to do the talking. After all, they were ...

After its voyage past Mars, Mariner 4 maintained intermittent communication with JPL and returned data about the ...

The first serious proposal for a human mission to Mars came in 1953, when German-American rocket scientist Wernher von Braun published "The Mars Project." The book laid out a practical plan for ...

Faith in the possibility of 'enhancing' humankind – the extension human abilities and lifespan by any technological means – ...

Interestingly, Tikhonravov’s dream of a Soviet mission to Mars was based on former Nazi rocket scientist-turned-American rocket scientist, Wernher Von Braun, who had his own “ Mars Project ” that ...

In 1953, Wernher von Braun, who would go on to design NASA's giant Saturn V moon rocket, wrote a seminal work called "The Mars Project,” the first comprehensive look at how to send people to the ...