NASA has released a new document that highlights planned programmatic paradigm shifts in Mars exploration over the next 20 years. This plan was prepared for the NASA Science Mission Directorate's ...

This mission would represent a pivotal moment in space exploration, building upon decades of robotic exploration that has laid the groundwork for human presence on Mars. The Artemis program, which ...

NASA has released a new document that highlights planned programmatic paradigm shifts in Mars exploration over the next 20 years. This plan was prepared for the NASA Science Mission Directorate's ...

In the best possible conditions, it would take a spacecraft between six and nine months to reach Mars and the same to get back -- not to mention the additional months they would likely spend there.

In 2020, the estimated cost of that Mars sample return plan maxed out at around $3 billion. By April 2024, the mission's complexity and technical challenges were clearer, and its price tag rose to ...

After the Mars Pathfinder mission in 1997, NASA shifted the focus of its Mars exploration efforts toward seeking evidence of water. In 1998 the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) entered Martian orbit ...

It's not about a singular trip to Mars," he said. "We're part of a long legacy of exploration, of human exploration, of space, and we're doing our little part to try to advance that." ...

Musk, however, is more aggressive in his predictions than NASA. The U.S. space agency aims to put crewed landers onto Mars "in the 2030s," according to its "Journey to Mars" framework.

NASA has released a new document that highlights planned programmatic paradigm shifts in Mars exploration over the next 20 years. This plan was prepared for the NASA Science Mission Directorate's ...