This book’s strength lies in its authorship: it is not written by a physicist enthralled by the engineering challenge of Mars ...

The race to Mars has quietly become the defining contest of twenty-first century spaceflight, pitting a state-backed Chinese program, a commercially driven SpaceX campaign, and a methodical NASA ...

While agencies promise that humans will soon walk on Mars, insiders suggest the timeline may be far less realistic than the public believes. Behind the optimism lies a web of political ambition, ...