Extraplanetary spacefaring has a hoary history in science fiction. Elon Musk, our so-touted Mars visionary, is an avid sci-fi reader. A book he acknowledges as foundational to his outlook is Robert ...

In his inaugural speech, Trump, 78, mentioned a Mars mission just after promising to “end of the chronic disease epidemic and keep our children safe, healthy and disease-free.” “Above all ...

Moreover this Artemis project is touted as a precursor to human missions to Mars, the red planet, in the next 20 years — at a cost that your editorial (“Musk’s mission to Mars”, FT View ...

Of course, there are a lot of “ifs” in there, some of them as large as the enormous Starship rocket that will embark on the ambitious Mars mission. The 120-meter-tall rocket, which comprises ...

"A Mars mission will be the greatest undertaking that humans have ever done," said Volker Maiwald, an aerospace engineer from the German Aerospace Center (DLR), in an interview with Space.com.