Robert Zubrin, the planet’s leading strategist for landing humans on Mars, predicts SpaceX’s Starship will win the race to speed astronauts to Mars, but not until 2031.

to demonstrate a nuclear thermal rocket engine in space to reduce transit time for human missions to the Red Planet. Meanwhile, SpaceX CEO and founder Elon Musk has proposed using the company’s ...

He notes that the SLS rocket is not reusable and is incapable ... Pace said that a human flyby of the red planet might be possible during that time frame, or potentially a return of Mars soil ...

Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has delivered the first hardware -- a rocket booster for the launch vehicle of India's maiden human space flight Gaganyaan-- to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO ...