SpaceX is now poised to become the first private company to send astronauts into space.

U.S. space agency NASA has said it hopes to send astronauts to Mars in the mid-2030s.

It's one small step in a decades-spanning effort to send astronauts to explore asteroids, Mars, and beyond.

The CST-100 is being developed as part of NASA's commercial crew program to send astronauts to the ISS.

NASA wants to use the SLS to send astronauts to an asteroid no later than 2025 -and Mars after that.

Creation of Dragon is historic in the sense that it will allow NASA to send astronauts to the ISS from American soil.

The space tourist and entrepreneur has founded the Inspiration Mars Foundation to send astronauts on a round trip to the red planet.

The United States will axe its ambitious plan to send astronauts back to the Moon as its budget deficit balloons to record levels.

And with NASA gearing up to send astronauts to the moon's south pole, there's never been a better time to be a lunatic.

If the goal is to send astronauts to Mars, it can be argued-andhas been-thatNASA and the International Space Station are only impediments.

Oh and also, the rocket is part of SpaceX's bid for a $2.6 billion NASA contract to send astronauts to the International Space Station.

The people at KSC were accustomed to sending astronauts off to space.

But instead of sending astronauts to Mars, it'll whizz the rest of us across the globe.

Science Technologically we may be close to sending astronauts to Mars, but is the human body ready for it?

And NASA announced its would be sending astronauts up to the International Space Station on private spacecraft starting in 2017.

NASA last sent astronauts into space on a brand new vehicle 40 years ago at the start of the space shuttle program.