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Low gravity and high radiation: Would humans remain human on Mars?
This early morning view of the inner wall of Gale Crater is ethereal. (credit: NASA)
People like Elon Musk and others in the "space settlement" camp believe NASA and the US space industry should colonize Mars and make homo sapiens a multi-planet species. Musk wants SpaceX to one day send colonists to Mars, while NASA is talking...
SpaceX’s Elon Musk teases ‘dangerous’ plan to colonize Mars starting in 2024
SpaceX’s billionaire...
An engine for Mars: Aerojet wins $67M NASA contract for solar electric propulsion
Get your cycler to Mars: Buzz Aldrin lays out his plan to settle Red Planet in 2040
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Nearly five decades...
Moon Village vs. Journey to Mars: Which space vision will the next president pick?
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Over the past eight years, the focus of NASA’s space vision has...
Meet NCAM, the researchers helping NASA go “to the Moon, to Mars, and beyond”
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MICHOUD, La.—Obviously, NASA's novel plans for its Space Launch System (SLS) and the Orion capsule require state of the art tools and engineering. But all those strategies, machines, and flight hardware don't appear out of thin air. While much of NASA's work is built on the shoulders of giants so to speak, they also find partners to continuously perform essential research and...
Nerd fight! Neil deGrasse Tyson’s blast at Elon Musk’s Mars plan sparks a volley
Is SpaceX founder Elon Musk crazy to press ahead with plans to send...
NASA comes up with plan to fix InSight Mars lander and launch it in 2018
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SpaceX’s Elon Musk wants to go into space by 2021 and start Mars missions by 2025
SpaceX founder Elon Musk says he has his heart set on going into space himself, perhaps in the next four or five years, and organize the first flights to Mars by 2025. Musk’s travel timetable came out...
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