April 12th, 2004del.icio.us Digg Reddit StumbleUpon
Humans on Mars by 2011?
Written by Fraser Cain
The Associated Press is reporting that a private group of Russian space experts announced plans to send 6 humans to Mars by 2011 - for a cost of only $3.5 billion. An official from the Central Research Institute for Machine Building said it would carry out the mission with funding by Aerospace Systems, and would be completely private. The program envisions six cosmonauts traveling to Mars and exploring it for several months before returning to Earth - the total journey would take three years. The mission costs would be low because it would use existing spacecraft. The Russian Space Agency has no involvement with this mission, and dismissed it as nonsense.
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May 5th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
All that money to send humans to Mars, how ridiculous,why not send the money to feed the world that is starving, and ease the burdens off of the real humans that slave to pay taxes .
May 16th, 2008 at 5:50 am
Travelling to the planets and on to the stars will be essential to ensure the long term survival of an expanding human empire. We are the dominant species on this planet and it is inevitable that we will do whatever is within our power to ensure our survival. That may very well mean there will be a need to expand beyond our planet for varied social, enviromental,fanancial,resource etc. issues. I wish the Russians luck and i think it is a good investment for our future knowledge base.