Monday, January 22, 2007

Projected 2011 Mars Mission Heavy on Pocketbook

http://www.space.com/news/070110_nasa_marsmissions.html

NASA recently released its proposal for an unmanned mission to Mars set to take place by the year 2011. The mission will address the issue of Mars' climate and habitability, and improve our understanding of the upper atmosphere and ionosphere of the red planet. This groundbreaking mission will not come cheap as costs have been estimated at $475 million, $2 million of which will be spent refining concepts in order to appropriately select the mission type.

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