President Donald Trump recently announced that the United States would work to land astronauts on Mars, preferably within the ...

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, February 1) ...

Colonising the red planet en route to creating “a spacefaring civilisation” has long been one of Musk’s driving ambitions — ...

As Elon Musk helps the Trump administration eliminate DEI, his SpaceX currently has a NASA contract to help land the first ...

NASA has plans to launch the first deep space station for humans to live long-term. Is it a necessary step to Mars?

Continuing the Artemis program and using its planned lunar space station as a staging post would be a more energy efficient ...

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

and ultimately flying to Mars. NASA earlier this year delayed Artemis 3 mission and its first crewed moon landing in half a century using SpaceX's Starship, to September 2026. It was previously ...

A world-leading designer of space robots says gigantic new rockets being tested by billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are ...

What is Musk’s budget for SpaceX’s Mars programme? He tweeted in September 2024, “Making life multiplanetary is fundamentally a cost-per-tonne to Mars problem.” A funding problem ...