human missions to mars
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When It Comes to Exploring Space, We’re Still Stuck in the Stone Ages
We’re rapidly approaching the quarter mark of the 21st century, but instead of being at the brink of a radical transformative stage, such as the futuristic vision akin to Arthur C. Clarke’s Star Child from 2001: A Space Odyssey, we’re still throwing proverbial bones into the sky. Such is the feeling I get in the…
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NASA Tests the First Rocket to Launch From the Surface of Another Planet
NASA’s Perseverance rover has been diligently collecting rocky samples from Mars to stow them away on the planet’s dusty surface while engineers work to develop a rocket that can launch off of another world as a crucial step in the process of retrieving the samples. The team behind the Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) recently tested…
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World’s Richest Man Elon Musk Thinks ‘Almost Anyone’ Can Afford $138,820 SpaceX Ticket to Mars
I’m sure all of you are familiar with our friend Elon Musk. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO is famously grounded in reality. He’s a man that never bullshits consumers. He also just so happens to be the richest man to ever walk the earth who actually doesn’t know shit about fuck when it comes to…
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Space Tourism Is a Waste
Jeff Bezos, the richest man on Earth, will head into suborbital space on Tuesday. He’ll be the second billionaire to take such a journey this month, getting narrowly beat out by Richard Branson, who recently took an hour-long rocket trip to the edge of space. Next year, Elon Musk — who has traded the world’s-richest…