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Setting a Date for Landing Humans on Mars
There’s a lot of talk about going to the red planet. Some experts are saying the time has come to make a plan.
A screen shot from a high-definition, simulated movie of Mojave Crater on Mars, based on images taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
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From Congress to NASA to Elon Musk, there’s been a lot of talk about humans going to Mars.
Until recently, it’s been fanciful, given budget constraints, the mothballing of the space shuttle and Americans needing Russia to reach the International Space Station. But slowly, the red planet is coming into view. The vehicles necessary are being built, research craft are being sent to survey the landscape and plans are being drawn up for a lunar way station.