Twenty years before Neil Armstrong uttered his memorable words on the Moon about one small step for man but a giant leap for ...

Bill Anders, Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo 8, the first manned spaceflight to leave ... Meanwhile robotic probes are still exploring Mars. Last month the InSight lander, which will sample the ...

Many years before President Trump expressed his intention to send an American crewed mission to Mars, Wernher von Braun ...

The former NASA astronaut, who notes that he’s a “big supporter” of the unmanned Mars efforts, calls manned Mars missions “almost ridiculous.” “What’s the imperative? What’s ...

He says Nasa shouldn't be aiming to send manned missions to Mars Anders ... Meanwhile, robotic probes are still exploring Mars. Last month, the InSight lander, which will sample the planet's ...

while for a lander, you have to design and build a heat shield that can withstand the loads of atmospheric entry. Usually, this will mean that the arrival velocity of Mars cannot exceed a certain ...

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