MAVEN's science mission ended in 2016, but the spacecraft is still used to relay communications with other missions on Mars. On November 18, 2013, NASA launched the MAVEN spacecraft to Mars.
NASA's Viking missions to Mars may have inadvertently eliminated Martian life. The missions used water in experiments to detect life. Astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch believes this was a mistake.
NASA's Artemis 2 lunar mission in 2024 will send the ... She has watched five human spaceflight launches since and participated in a simulated Mars mission. The four Artemis 2 astronauts recently ...
The tightening relationship between Donald Trump and Space X CEO Elon Musk has caught the attention of space policy analysts wondering about U.S. aspirations to get to Mars.