Explore the race to Mars! Discover NASA, SpaceX, and China's plans, their groundbreaking goals, and the challenges of reaching the Red Planet.

SpaceX's Falcon 9 will help launch and deploy a batch of Amazon's Kuiper satellites into orbit that could one day challenge Starlink.

After its voyage past Mars, Mariner 4 maintained intermittent communication with JPL and returned data about the interplanetary environment for two more years. But by the end of 1967, the spacecraft ...