There are many obstacles to overcome before humans can set foot on Mars, including problems surrounding launch mass and ...

Orbital dynamics show that President Trump’s pledge to land astronauts on Mars couldn’t happen until 2029 at the earliest. And even that would be challenging. By Jonathan Corum The distance ...

Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will conduct a spacewalk outside the International Space Station to swab the ...

with an astronaut launch set for 2028 (Marie D ... is to create a second foundation for human civilization on Mars, with the near-term goal of fostering the Red Planet’s first cosmopolis ...

And we will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the stars and stripes on the planet Mars," President Trump said ... Place Cape Canaveral is slated to ...

To comply, NASA has sought to sanitize Mars rovers at a threshold of no more than 300,000 bacterial spores on any surface.

Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore ... which focuses on collecting samples near life support system vents to see whether the space station releases microorganisms. Any spacecraft and ...