It’s Official, NASA’s Next Target for Human Crews Is Mars

It’ll soon be 62 years since humans left the confines of their planet and headed out into space. On April 12, 1961, Russian Yuri Gagarin performed a full orbit of Earth inside a spacecraft called Sputnik and opened the doors to countless other missions to orbit, space stations, probes and rovers sent all over the solar system, and even a couple of missions departing for the far reaches of space. Despite the six decades and count... (continue reading...)