“The time for a human mission to Mars is now,” write the editors of “A One Way Mission to Mars: Colonizing the Red Planet,” a collection of articles published in book form this month by the Journal of Cosmology. “The overall message of this volume is not just that...
Mars should be US space agency’s focus: pane...
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NASA should focus its efforts on a solar-powered rover mission to Mars rather than human spaceflight in the coming decade, but only if costs can be slashed, a science panel said Monday.The recommendation was part of a report by the National Research Council urging a series of planetary missions “that could provide a steady stream of important new discoveries about the solar system” from 2013 to 2022. The report comes as NASA faces scrutiny from lawmakers over its proposed 2012 budget and pressure from the public to find a new way to transport astronauts into space once the three-decade old shuttle program ends this...
Mars, Brought To You...
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NASA scientists and their colleagues are now proposing corporate financing for a human mission to Mars. This raises the prospect that a spaceship named the Microsoft Explorer or the Google Search Engine could one day go down in history as the first spaceship to bring humans to the red...