A senior Nasa engineer has said the first person to set foot on Mars should be a woman. Allison McIntyre, who puts prospective space travellers through their paces at Johnson Space Center in ...

Forget “one giant step for man”, the first person to step on Mars could be a woman – Alyssa Carson. The 18-year-old, who is one of the world’s youngest astronauts-in-training, speaks to ...

One of the first men to orbit the Moon has told ... He says Nasa shouldn't be aiming to send manned missions to Mars Anders, 85, said he's a "big supporter" of the "remarkable" unmanned programmes ...

“One is to leverage technology that was previously used to land both (the) Perseverance and Curiosity (rovers) on Mars. The ...

Its plans included building multiple space stations, continued trips to the Moon, and the first crewed mission to Mars by the 1980s ... We will build new ships to carry man forward into the ...

Since NASA landed the first man on the Moon in 1969 ... How close would we be to actually colonizing Mars or visiting another star system? It’s impossible to know for sure, but here’s a ...

Numbering the years gives scientists a common point of reference that predates the first successful Mars flyby mission—NASA’s Mariner 4 in 1965. Since then, humanity has sent a succession of ...

Håvard Grip, Ingenuity's first pilot, said in an interview Wednesday that lessons learned from Ingenuity's 72nd and final flight on Jan. 18 will be fed into designs for more powerful Mars ...