Those comments, though, assuaged Rep. Ed Perlmutter (D-Colo.), a member of the committee and an outspoken advocate for a 2033 Mars mission who regularly displays a "Mars 2033" bumper sticker at ...

China aims to send its first crewed mission to Mars in 2033, with regular follow-up flights to follow, under a long-term plan to build a permanently inhabited base on the Red Planet and extract ...

NASA could get astronauts to Mars orbit by 2033 and onto the Red Planet's surface by 2039, a new report by a nongovernmental organization suggests. At a news conference this morning (April 2 ...

NASA and its partners should commit to a mission in 2033 that will take a solid step forward toward our goal of landing humans on Mars during the 2030s.

The Mars Sample Return mission is a joint effort between NASA and ESA, and it’s seeking to do something that’s never been done before: bring pieces of Mars to Earth for analysis.

The first samples from Mars, collected by the Perseverance rover, will be returned to Earth in 2033. The Mars Sample Return missions now also include two helicopters similar to Ingenuity.

The race to land humans on Mars looks set for a tight finish. China aims to send its first crewed mission to the red planet in 2033 — the same year that NASA has set as a target.. Beijing’s ...

Full report(PDF). The NASA Transition Authorization Act of 2017 mandated that NASA “develop a human exploration roadmap…to expand human presence beyond low-Earth orbit to the surface of Mars ...

Now that the International Space Station is complete, NASA is touting it as a test bed for future voyages to Mars. But when will those voyages start? Would you believe Oct. 9, 2033? That's one of ...

If NASA's commitment to the space station ended in 2024, that would free up funds for the 2033 orbital mission, leading to a landing in 2039 for a short stay on the Red Planet, Hubbard said.

An incremental, multiple-mission approach that envisions getting astronauts to Phobos by 2033, then down to the Martian surface by 2039 could make manned Mars exploration technologically and ...