Mars Plan Siphoning Funds from Other Space Projects (NPR audio)

struggle4progress

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Tue Jun-08-04 03:00 PM
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Mars Plan Siphoning Funds from Other Space Projects (NPR audio)

An expert panel has assembled a presidential report detailing how to send a human mission to Mars. NPR's David Kestenbaum reports that the multi-billion dollar initiative would require draining resources from other scientific research projects.

http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1943772

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Tue Jun-08-04 03:46 PM
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1. This is absolutely crazy

They won't even get beyond the Van Allen Radiation Belts -
at least, not alive.

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struggle4progress

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Tue Jun-08-04 03:52 PM
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2. But it's another boondoggle for the aerospace contractors

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