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Will we ever send humans to Mars?
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Adam Crighton
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 First there needs to be a plan - any plan is better than no plan


In the summer of 1969, two weeks after Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the Moon, rocket scientist Wernher von Braun delivered to Nasa a detailed, fully costed plan for landing humans on Mars .

 

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bill (73) Senior board member | 2007-10-09 22:03:57
as always, the sting is in the tail - "But then, I'm not the person paying for it." was the last line of the article . A very exiting proposition from an engineering perspective - there would be huge developments and innovation, but can we justify the dollars - I guess we just don't know what we can do until we try might be a good approach - maybe the first cave man said exactly the same thing - but the sting is in the tail - as noted above
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