Ten explorers are currently training at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston to become flight-eligible astronauts. Selected ...

Real-life space exploration and big-screen science fiction will converge on Friday. As NASA prepares to launch Artemis II, ...

On November 13, NASA launched a new unmanned mission to Mars under the name ESCAPADE, short for Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers. The launch was met with fairly little fanfare in ...

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NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) spacecraft, which has been exploring Mars for over a decade, is ...

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Scott Solomon is a biologist and professor at Rice University and the author of “Becoming Martian: How Living in Space Will Change Our Bodies and Minds.” Astronauts are heading back to the moon — the ...

Suggested Citation: "4 Prioritizations and Rankings to Optimize and Enable the Expansion of Deep Space Human Exploration." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2018. A Midterm ...