The Advanced Technology That Will Take Us To Mars | The New Frontier

New projects are advancing slowly, moving hardware into the testing phase, new designs, and new capabilities. The next 12 months will see an intense rise in flight tests, demonstration launches, and high-priority flights some are on time others are not.
For over 50 years we have bombarded Mars with our probes and landers. Spying from orbit to map the terrain, finding the planet's strengths and weaknesses. The time is near for the full-scale invasion of the planet - when humans walk on Mars and claim it for their own.