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 ...

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

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 ...

SpaceX founder Elon Musk is predicting trips to Mars by 2028. Like von Braun and his team, Elon and the SpaceX team have transformed their innovative, cost-effective Falcon 1 into the Falcon 9 ...