Some of the concerns during Mars 500, an experiment that will simulate a 500 day voyage to the planet Mars, are how the mock crew will handle the effects of isolation, boredom, and being confined solely to a very small spaceship like environment during the “journey”.
With up to 100 experiments to carry out during the [...]

Even though the second full Moon in a month is not actually a Blue Moon it seems the misconception is so ingrained there is little point in putting people right any more, with Sydney Observatory advising that both January and March of this year are Blue Moon months.
In Australia, the first full Moon in 2010 [...]

Photos of the surface of Mars as taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).
Absolutely incredible.

Some people are questioning the value of the Mars-500 project, where six volunteers will be sealed – for 520 days – inside a spaceship-like chamber, as part of an experiment to understand the effects of deep-space travel on astronauts.
Some feel the simulation lacks much of the authenticity of an actual flight to the red [...]

New Scientist magazine attempts to second guess the outcome of the Augustine committee deliberations as to where the next generation of astronauts will be sent.
In this so-called “flexible path” option, NASA astronauts would visit an asteroid, orbit Mars, and land on the moon. Three versions differ only in the launch vehicle used to leave low-Earth [...]

Former astronaut Dr Franklin Chang-Diaz has developed plans for a plasma rocket engine that could drastically reduce travel time around the solar system when compared to the rocket engines currently in use.
But once we have this capability, Mars isn’t really the only place that we can go. With a megawatt-class VASIMR, basically we will [...]

Stefany Anne Golberg on space exploration: travelling to Mars and exploring the red planet has become a symbol of our desire to explore whatever we can, from Earth’s oceans to where ever our best space craft can take us.
Fox News asked Bradbury, “Do you think that life once existed on Mars?” Bradbury replied, “We [...]

A future base on the Moon may not only be mobile, crawling from pole to pole over a number of years, but also form the basis of a dry-run for the exploration of Mars.

Volunteers recently crawled out of a capsule in Moscow that simulated the sort of craft that may one day voyage to Mars, after being sealed inside for 105 days.
Far from being relieved that the experience was over, one member of the trial mission instead said he virtually lost all track of time… a [...]

I didn’t know there were “no life on Mars” conspiracy theories, but it seems there are religious scientists intent on hiding the “truth” from us…
So, the question remains: have attempts to explore Mars been secretly scuppered by religious scientists keen to keep planet Earth “special”? Have they been hiding their sabotage under a veil of [...]