Early prototypes of the SpaceX Starship super-capsule that Italy is chartering to speed its spaceflight and biotech experiments to Mars (Marie D. De Jesús/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images) Houston Chronicle via Getty Images With its expanding alliance with SpaceX, the Italian Space Agency is set to help chart and safeguard future astronaut flights to Mars…
Astronauts train to scale a Mars volcano at an analogue site in France. Lava tubes that crisscross the Martian surface might provide sanctuaries for the first human explorers on the Red Planet. (Photo by Francis DEMANGE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images) Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images As SpaceX races to test and perfect the Starship super-capsules slated to…
Arthur Clarke, screenwriter for the blockbuster film “2001: A Space Odyssey,” has been resurrected as an advanced OpenAI chatbot to help map out the transformation of Mars into a new Eden for humanity and to recount their spacefaring odysseys (Photo by Movie Poster Image Art/Getty Images) Getty Images To speed up their masterplan to recreate…