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NASA plans to send crewed missions to Mars over the next decade – but the 140 million-mile (225 million-kilometer) journey to the red planet could take several months to years round trip.

Elon Musk should only send one person to Mars to avoid contaminating the red planet, a leading scientist has said.

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Here we investigate how long a trip to Mars would take using available technology and explore some factors affecting travel time. How far away is Mars? To determine how long it will take to reach ...

Starship is seen by many as the best option for interplanetary travel between Earth and Mars and being able to reuse components, such as the boosters, is essential for this to occur. “ ...

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NASA's Artemis program plans to return humans to the Moon this decade to practice and prepare for a Mars mission as early as ...

“Everything you see out here doesn’t exist on Mars,” adds Jim Chapman ... refuge and state park where these species could go and not have to deal with people,” says Justin LeClaire ...