Proponents of going to Mars see peril and opportunity in Elon Musk's close relationship with Trump. Experts say just getting ...

Landing humans on Mars has not been in the ... That craft was initially planned to make its first Mars launch in 2018, but the company scrapped it in 2017 in favor of the larger Starship.

Elon Musk on Monday said that its Starship rocket's first flight to Mars will be equipped with Tesla-made Optimus humanoid robots.

“The first Starships to Mars will launch in 2 years,” he posted on X in September. “These will be uncrewed to test the reliability of landing intact on Mars.” “If those landings go ...

The SpaceX boss said last year that the immediate plan was to launch the first Starship missions to Mars in 2026. These uncrewed flights would test the reliability of the spacecraft’s landing ...

ESA wants to get ahead on the key tech needed for a precision landing on the Red Planet. The European Space Agency (ESA) wants to develop key technologies for a Mars surface lander by the mid-2030s.

NASA has called landing on Mars a “horizon goal ... and the company announced in November it planned to launch the first uncrewed Starship Mars missions in late 2026, the next time the ...