NASA's recently-unveiled Mars rover concept vehicle is intended to stay here on Earth, although some of its technical features may ultimately find use in a manned mission.

A wealthy space tourist announced plans Wednesday to launch a high-risk manned flight to Mars in 2018, sending a man and a woman on a bare-bones 501-day round-trip flyby.

To Infinity and Beyond: Toyota Building Manned Rover Vehicle for the Moon and Mars. Heck, we wouldn’t mind an SUV that looked like this for earth. Ed Tahaney Writer Mar 13, 2019.

It's also developing its own Mars Base Camp concept, a so-called "deep space transport" vehicle that would be assembled at the lunar gateway and then transport humans to the Red Planet.

For its part, NASA is already working on a manned rover called the Space Exploration Vehicle concept, or SEV. Like the Parker Brothers’ Mars rover concept, SEV contains an enclosed cabin for ...

Stuhlinger and his team hoped to launch the vehicle in 1986, when the amount of energy needed to travel from Earth to Mars and back would be relatively small and a time of low solar activity.

But NASA is also showing off what a future manned Mars rover might look like. ... The new Mars rover concept vehicle stands 11 feet tall, 24 feet long and 13 feet wide.

But the applications are already rolling in for the first manned mission to Mars. They'll be crammed into a space the size of an RV for more than a year, breathing recycled air, ...

As early as 1961, some within NASA proposed that a Mars expedition be made the space agency’s next goal after Apollo. NASA Administrator James Webb was loath to promote such a goal until after ...

An Initial Concept for a Manned Mars Excursion Vehicle for a Tenuous Mars Atmosphere, NASA TM X-53475, G. Woodcock, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, 7 June 1966. Topics Mars Spacecraft Beyond Apollo ...

A medium-duty truck chassis designed for the military may become the backbone of a vehicle designed to explore the surface of the planet Mars. Stewart & Stevenson, which builds a family of medium ...

This image released August 27, 2003 captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows a close-up of the red planet Mars when it was just 34,648,840 miles (55,760,220 km) away.