What will be the next 'giant leap' in space exploration? Could it be a manned expedition to the Red Planet Mars? In this challenging and tho...

Unimaginably distant, and yet at the same time the most Earthlike of the planets, Mars has exerted a powerful pull on the human imagination ...

In "Human Missions to Mars' Donald Rapp looks at human missions to Mars from an engineering perspective. He begins by describing the pros an...

In January 2004 two NASA spacecraft, making an interplanetary trek to Mars, landed separately on the rocky surface of the red planet. By the...