SpaceX is planning a groundbreaking mission to Mars in March 2026. The humanoid robot Optimus will be onboard the Starship rocket, marking another step toward colonizing the Red Planet. SpaceX, the company owned by Elon Musk,

SpaceX is gearing up for a historic Mars mission, sending Tesla's AI-powered humanoid robot into deep space by 2026.

Elon Musk announced Starship's journey to Mars with a Tesla humanoid bot by the end of 2026. Meanwhile, SpaceX successfully delivered a new crew to the International Space Station in a NASA mission, allowing previously stuck astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to return home after nine months.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced that the Starship rocket would depart for Mars at the end of 2026. The spacecraft will also carry Tesla's humanoid robot Optimus onboard, as a precursor to human landings.

Robert Zubrin, the planet’s leading strategist for landing humans on Mars, predicts SpaceX’s Starship will win the race to speed astronauts to Mars, but not until 2031.

Elon Musk revealed that SpaceX plans to send its Starship rocket to Mars at the end of 2026, with the mission also carrying Tesla’s humanoid robot, Optimus.

NASA is also waiting for a modified version of the spacecraft to serve as a lunar lander for its Artemis program, which is designed to return astronauts to the Moon by the end of this decade.

SpaceX's Starship, spearheaded by Elon Musk, is slated to journey towards Mars by next year's end with Tesla's humanoid bot, Optimus, on board. Musk envisions human landings by 2029 or 2031 if initial trials succeed.

Humans have never set foot on Mars, but Musk and SpaceX have set a goal to get over this obstacle by the dawn of the next decade. He took to X yesterday (15 March), to confirm that SpaceX's Starship will be heading to Mars at the end of 2026.