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 ...

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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 ...

SpaceX, Elon Musk’s private space company, has announced its ambitious goal to send the first humans to Mars by 2028 ...

The Space Race was at its height, and alongside their manned flights the two superpowers ... what is being written up today as the first bug on Mars. When the lander collected Martian weather ...