How to Land a House on Mars
January 21, 2016
NASA thought it knew, until an alarming failure last summer.
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Food for Mars: A Student’s Story
January 21, 2016
An experiment on how to grow plants on Mars
Progress Is a Double-Edge Sword. That's Why It's so Important We Colonize Mars
January 21, 2016
Once we start establishing colonies on other worlds, says Stephen Hawking, humanity will endure.
NASA enjoys budget increase; next step Mars
January 21, 2016
NASA, will be enjoying a much larger budget this year thanks to a spending bill passed by Congress.
NASA’s Orion spacecraft takes a big step closer to Mars
January 21, 2016
Together with the Space Launch System (SLS), which is also currently being developed, Orion is expected to take humans to Mars – and possibly beyond.
Meet the Cambridge student who could be off to Mars after being ‘inspired' by astronaut Tim Peake
January 20, 2016
Cambridge PhD student Ryan MacDonald is among the final 100 contenders for the Mars One programme
Space Station Live: Orion Update
January 20, 2016
NASA Commentator Pat Ryan talks with John McCullough, NASA’s Orion Vehicle Integration Manager, about the progress of preparing the spacecraft which will carry future astronauts to destinations beyond low Earth orbit.
Is there life on Mars? It's not likely, say scientists, after four-year experiment in Earth's coldest place
January 20, 2016
Scientists use drill designed for Red Planet's permafrost to discover 'cold and arid threshold' at which even primitive organisms cannot exist
Here's why Stephen Hawking said space colonies will take at least 100 years
January 20, 2016
There's more going on than just progress and exploration. Humanity has to step a lot more carefully than you realise.
Women Are All on Board for NASA’s Highest-Risk Trip to Date
January 20, 2016
Preparations for the first trip to Mars are well underway, and four out of eight of the astronauts selected for the journey are women.
How We Could Build a City on Mars
January 20, 2016
If we want to someday live on Mars, spaceships won’t be enough. We would need a Martian city—and this is how we might build one.
