Orbital dynamics show that President Trump’s pledge to land astronauts on Mars couldn’t happen until 2029 at the earliest.

NASA recently deemed this situation unacceptable. In April 2024, agency chief Bill Nelson announced that an overhaul of the ...

The result was a "hard" sideways landing on ... Carried to Mars by NASA's Perseverance rover, Ingenuity was dropped to the surface of the red planet in April 2021 and made its initial flight ...

In 2021, the same design was used to land Perseverance ... they each contain similar architecture, which requires landing a Mars Ascent Vehicle on the Martian surface. That vehicle will be ...

Option one would use the same "sky crane" landing system proven with NASA's Curiosity and Perseverance Mars rovers ... on the red planet in February 2021 and has been collecting samples across ...

During his inaugural address this month, US President Donald Trump pledged that the United States would launch astronauts to plant the “Stars and Stripes” on planet Mars. Human boots on Mars ...

This will also prepare us to safely send the first human explorers to Mars." During formulation, NASA will proceed with exploring and evaluating two distinct means of landing the payload platform ...

Such as, say, Mars. So [Matthew Earl] sought to give Perseverance rover’s landing video some context by projecting onto orbital imagery from ESA’s Mars Express. The resulting video (embedded ...

Scientists suspected Mars had long ago been ... (The rover found soon after its 2012 landing that they were.) Perseverance, which arrived at the Red Planet in 2021, is building on Curiosity's ...