The program for manned missions to the Red Planet was established ... another pair would remain in orbit as overseers. The Mars lander, intended to serve as a habitable base on Mars, is designed ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) wants to develop key technologies for a Mars surface lander by the mid-2030s.

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 ...

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 ...

(Reuters) -Thales Alenia Space has won an 862 million euro ($897 million) order from the European Space Agency (ESA) to deliver a lunar lander for ... long-duration manned lunar exploration ...