Astronomy on MSN

What will a human mission to Mars look like?

Since Viking 1 landed in 1976, humans have studied Mars from afar, relying on rovers and orbiters to analyze the planet. But with NASA planning a human mission as early as the 2030s, that will soon ...
AOL

Human Missions to Mars Must Search for Alien Life, New Report Finds

The best reason to send humans to Mars isn’t for guts or glory—or the construction of colonies to safeguard against existential Earth-bound risks. Instead it’s to answer a single, simple question: Is ...
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The Martian treasure map that could lead to ancient aliens

Today, Mars is known as the red planet, for its rust-colored desert landscape. Once upon a time, Mars was a very different ...
autoevolution

NASA's Second Year-Long Mission to Simulated Mars in Texas Starts in October

Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog is the fancy term American agency NASA uses to describe a program meant to completely cut off a group of people from the outside world, in an attempt to ...
SpaceNews

How carrying enough water to make return-trip propellant simplifies a Starship mission to Mars

The idea of a human mission to explore Mars has been studied repeatedly over the past 75 years. More than 1,000 piloted Mars mission studies were conducted inside and outside NASA between about 1950 ...