With a favorable launch opportunity to in 2018, NASA is asking the American public to design a mission to the Red Planet. full story ![]()
In a live press conference on May 6th, Nasa announced their plans for a manned mission to Mars. Nasa has already done significant work in exploring Mars and its potential for sustaining life, but a manned mission to Mars is...
examiner.com (15 days ago)
On Jan., 5, 2018, the United States will launch a manned mission to Mars. The flight will allow a yet unchosen man and a woman to become the first humans ever to lay eyes on Mars -- but not feet.
foxnews.com (2 months and 24 days ago)
Feb. 27 - American entrepreneur Dennis Tito says he wants to launch a manned mission to Mars in January 2018, but researchers at NASA and Stanford University argue that it may be better to visit the mysterious Martian moon, Phobos first. They're developing a team of robots they call "hedgehogs" to explore Phobos in the belief that a trip to the Martian moon will make a...
reuters.com (2 months and 24 days ago)
Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: Dennis Tito, the millionaire investment whiz who became the first paying passenger to visit the International Space Station in 2001, is said to be planning a privately backed, 501-day mission to Mars in 2018.
msnbc.com (2 months and 30 days ago)

Nasa administrator Charles Bolden said 'A human mission to Mars is today the ultimate destination in our solar system for humanity.'
dailymail.co.uk (15 days ago)

NASA’s Curiosity rover, drilling into a rock near its landing site, has found clear evidence that Mars, eons ago, could have supported living microbes. Mission scientists said today, in the words of Mike Meyer, NASA’s chief Mars scientist, they’ve found “all the signs of being...
abcnews.com (2 months and 11 days ago)

NASA’s Curiosity rover, drilling into a rock near its landing site, has found clear evidence that Mars, eons ago, could have supported living microbes. Mission scientists said today, in the words of Mike Meyer, NASA’s chief Mars scientist, they’ve found “all the signs of being...
abcnews.com (2 months and 11 days ago)
A multi-millionaire investment tycoon and space travel enthusiast is planning a privately funded 501-day round trip mission to Mars in 2018. Inspiration Mars Foundation, a nonprofit organization, led by millionaire Dennis Tito — the world’s first space tourist — will hold a news conference next week to announce the mission, for a January 2018 launch.
indiatimes.com (2 months and 28 days ago)
Forty-eight hours after Nasa’s Curiosity mission made a breakthrough discovery, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Russian federal space agency, Roscosmos, signed a formal agreement on Thursday to work in partnership on the European ExoMars programme towards the launch of two missions in 2016 and 2018 to the Red Planet, according to an announcement by ESA on Friday.
indiatimes.com (2 months and 8 days ago)
A private foundation is working to send a pair of non-NASA astronauts, possibly a married couple, on a slingshot journey to Mars, with blastoff slated for January 2018.
discovery.com (2 months and 24 days ago)
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