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Mars colonization news
April 22, 2015
A prize-winning idea from Dr George Hitt, an assistant professor at Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi, could help to mitigate the threat of radiation, making the prospect of a manned mission a little closer to reality.
April 21, 2015
Japan hopes to become the fourth nation to land a craft on the Moon and aims to pave the way for manned missions to Mars.
April 21, 2015
Establishing a permanent colony of humans on Mars is not an option. It's a necessity. At least, that's what some of the most innovative, intelligent minds of our age - Buzz Aldrin, Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, Bill Nye, and Neil deGrasse Tyson - are saying.
April 21, 2015
Nasa is offering an award of up to $30,000 for innovative design ideas to protect a spacecraft's crew on the journey to Mars.
April 21, 2015
As part of the Empowering Innovation Together program, Mouser Electronics is teaming up with celebrity engineer Grant Imahara and a variety of experts on an exciting new Space Exploration Series and Space Challenge that puts engineers in space.
April 21, 2015
Selected from 202,586 initial applicants for the MarsOne project, the Aussie is now one of 98 astronaut candidates and seven Aussies short-listed to leave Earth forever and become among the first humans to colonise the planet in 2026.
April 20, 2015
Elon Musk wants to die on Mars, and maybe you can too. In a few decades, space travel could become routine, writes Chris Impey in his new book, "Beyond: Our Future in Space".
April 20, 2015
Far from being a detour, the Moon is a critical stepping stone to Mars.
April 20, 2015
Siblings Raye and James Kass are acting as advisers to Mars One, a privately-funded mission that plans to dispatch four brave explorers on a one-way trip to establish a permanent colony on the Red Planet.
April 20, 2015
Sometimes bad news and negative opinions come in batches. March was not a good month for Mars and human spaceflight proponents, if you listen to the media.
April 19, 2015
Jocelyn Dunn is the first person to play golf on Mars. OK, not really on Mars, but pretty darn close. Sort of. Dunn is part of a six-member crew of faux Martian astronauts living at a facility in Hawaii.
