Robert Zubrin, the planet’s leading strategist for landing humans on Mars, predicts SpaceX’s Starship will win the race to speed astronauts to Mars, but not until 2031.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced that the Starship rocket will make its maiden Mars flight by the end of 2026, with human missions possibly starting by

Elon Musk on X announced that the Starship rocket will head to Mars at the end of next year. If the mission is successful, the first human landings could take place within a few years. Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX,

NASA’s two stuck astronauts headed back to Earth with SpaceX on Tuesday to close out a dramatic marathon mission that began with a bungled Boeing test flight more than nine months ago. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams bid farewell to the International Space Station — their home since last spring — departing aboard a SpaceX capsule alongside two other astronauts.