A senior Nasa engineer has said the first person to set foot on Mars should be a woman. Allison McIntyre, who puts prospective space travellers through their paces at Johnson Space Center in ...

Forget “one giant step for man”, the first person to step on Mars could be a woman – Alyssa Carson. The 18-year-old, who is one of the world’s youngest astronauts-in-training, speaks to ...

MOSCOW, November 22. /TASS/. The first manned expedition may fly to Mars as part of international cooperation in 2040-2050, Head of the Space Gamma-Spectroscopy Laboratory of Russia’s Space ...

One of the first men to orbit the Moon has told ... He says Nasa shouldn't be aiming to send manned missions to Mars Anders, 85, said he's a "big supporter" of the "remarkable" unmanned programmes ...

SpaceX, Elon Musk’s private space company, has announced its ambitious goal to send the first humans to Mars by 2028 ...

In an interview with WSJ's Alan Murray, Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk makes the case for an affordable electric car, the likelihood of his company SpaceX sending a man to Mars, and why he isn't ...

In the 19th century, the idea of men on Mars took off after astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli observed straight lines on Mars, which he called canali. This means channels, but it was wrongly ...