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New “Flying Tea Kettle” Could Get Us To Mars in Weeks, Not Months

June 26, 2012

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter At 54.6 million km away at its closest, the fastest travel to Mars from Earth using current technology (and no small bit of math) takes around 214 days — that’s about 30 weeks, or 7 months. A robotic explorer like Curiosity [...]

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