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Private Space Venture Now Targeting 2026 for Unprecedented Mars Landing
A commercial landing on Mars will have to wait a little longer as two private space companies updated their plan to touchdown on the Red Planet, delaying it by two years for reasons not made explicitly clear.
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NASA and DARPA Collaborating on a Nuclear-Powered Rocket for Quick Trips to Mars
One of the bigger questions surrounding NASA’s interest in sending a crewed mission to Mars surrounds the best way to get there, and it appears the agency might have found its answer. NASA announced today that it will be developing a nuclear thermal rocket engine in collaboration with the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
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3-Story Space Habitat Is Designed to Fit in SpaceX’s Starship Rockets
Students in Switzerland will use the prototype habitat to explore architectural solutions to the challenges of living on another planet.