4:56 About two-and-a-half hours before the engine firing, commands are sent to fire small onboard thrusters to "desaturate" or unload the momentum of the spinning reaction wheels. These devices are ...

Elon Musk is hell-bent on colonizing Mars. That's the spirit with which he founded SpaceX, his rocket company, in 2002. Musk was frustrated that NASA wasn't doing more to get people to the red planet ...

The race to Mars has quietly become the defining contest of twenty-first century spaceflight, pitting a state-backed Chinese ...

First crewed mission depends on uncrewed mission success Musk's timelines for Mars missions have changed frequently Previous timeline was five years for uncrewed mission, seven for crewed NASA delayed ...

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Elon Musk has fixed a new date on the cosmic calendar, telling the world that his giant Starship rocket could reach Mars for exploration in 2026. The claim instantly turned a long-running engineering ...

Speaking to SpaceX employees in Texas, Musk described the goal of sending humans to Mars as essential “for the long term survival of civilization." Under his vision, humans would not just step on the ...

In a major announcement that stirred both the tech and space communities, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has laid out an ambitious plan: launching the Starship rocket to Mars by the end of 2026, carrying ...