After its voyage past Mars, Mariner 4 maintained intermittent communication with JPL and returned data about the ...

The first serious proposal for a human mission to Mars came in 1953, when German-American rocket scientist Wernher von Braun published "The Mars Project." The book laid out a practical plan for ...

A rumor circulating online in January 2025 purported that a 1953 book called "Mars Project" by rocket science pioneer Wernher von Braun included a prediction that the leader of Mars would be named ...

Von Braun, known as the father of the Saturn family of rockets, served as the Marshall Center’s first director. Sumrall was part of the von Braun team from 1962 to 1976.