Experts told Newsweek about the difficulties of reaching Mars as the United States faces complex challenges in space policy.

President Donald Trump made a bold promise to America minutes after taking the Oath of Office: pledging that an American flag ...

The president’s Inaugural Address linked landing on the Red Planet with Manifest Destiny, but left many of the specifics ...

Following extensive analysis, NASA says it has determined that the Orion ... crewed Mars missions,” said Catherine Koerner, associate administrator Exploration Systems Development Mission ...

Sending humans to Mars is one of the most ambitious goals in the history of space exploration. Unlike missions to the Moon, ...

This spacecraft would be integrated with the Orion or an inflatable volume to transport crews of up to four to Mars and other deep-space destinations. By the early 2030s, Phase Three (“Earth ...

As a new administration looms, NASA's Artemis II SLS moon rocket is ready for stacking inside the VAB. The goal is a 2026 launch.

Currently being built and tested, Orion—like Crew ... agencies have designed spacecraft that shed the shackles of Earth’s gravity and traveled to the moon or Mars. And if all goes well ...

It was NASA’s Orion capsule, which would soon end the 25-day Artemis I mission around and beyond the moon with a fiery splashdown into the ocean. Orion's reentry followed a sharply angled ...

NASA recently deemed this situation unacceptable. In April 2024, agency chief Bill Nelson announced that an overhaul of the ...