<p>Mars is back. Suddenly everyone ? from Elon Musk to Ridley Scott to Donald Trump ? is talking about going to the Red Planet.<br><br>When the Apollo astronauts walked on the Moon in 1969, many people imagined Mars would be next. However NASA's Viking 1, which landed in 1976, was just a robot. The much-anticipated crewed mission failed to materialise, defeated by a combination of technological and political challenges.<br><br>Four decades after ...