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Retired NASA astronauts Harrison Shmitt and Buzz Aldrin shared their visions on future space exploration in conversations with American astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and former astronaut Charlie Duke at the Starmus Festival at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim on Tuesday.
SpaceX; Mark Brake/Getty Images; Business Insider Elon Musk said Tuesday he is "highly confident" SpaceX will land humans on Mars in 2026 — two years later than he previously hoped. In 2017, Musk said that he wanted SpaceX to send unmanned ships to Mars in 2022, followed by a crewed mission two years later. Musk told Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner on Tuesday that he could make his own first trip to orbit in "possibly two or three years." Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.
Elon Musk's spacecraft has successfully launched into space carrying human sperm.
Six scientists are locking themselves inside a small dome in Hawaii for a year to study the effects of long-term space travel. Sean Carberry reports.
NASA is testing a new stationary lander called InSight for a planned mission to Mars in March 2016.The lander, which is equipped with two gallium arsenide solar array panels, will launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and land on Mars about six months later.
A NASA spacecraft blasts off from the Kennedy Space Center bound for Psyche, a metal-rich asteroid that could be the remnants of a small planet, or perhaps a new type of celestial body unknown to science. Trailing a blue glow from its next-generation electric propulsion system and flanked by two large solar arrays, the van-sized probe should arrive at its destination in the Asteroid Belt, between Mars and Jupiter, in July 2029. IMAGES
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