A senior Nasa engineer has said the first person to set foot on Mars should be a woman. Allison McIntyre, who puts prospective space travellers through their paces at Johnson Space Center in ...

Forget “one giant step for man”, the first person to step on Mars could be a woman – Alyssa Carson. The 18-year-old, who is one of the world’s youngest astronauts-in-training, speaks to ...

One of the first men to orbit the Moon has told BBC Radio 5 Live that it's "stupid" to plan human missions to Mars. Bill Anders, lunar module pilot of Apollo 8, the first human spaceflight to ...

This means the first Martian explorers ... just be a starting point for Mars adventurers and colonists. The more thick and heavy shielding there is between a person and the vacuum, the better.

conference. "I'm convinced that the first person to step foot on Mars will arrive there riding on a Boeing rocket," Muilenburg said during the recorded event. Boeing has good ground to stand on ...