Mice Headed for Mars?

Posted by michael on Friday August 31, 2001 @12:56AM from the douglas-adams-knew-the-mice-were-our-rulers dept.

MarsOrBust writes: "The Mars Society today announced their next project, called TransLife, will be to send an Apollo size spacecraft manned by mice into earth orbit rotating at Mars gravity. This will be the first time anyone has done research at Martian gravity. The purpose of the experiments is to prove that the transit to Mars, which would take about six months, should be done at Martian gravity. The project would cost about $10 million. In a related article SpaceRef talks about how millionaires are now starting to fund these type of private missions and speculates whether billionaires might fund further space projects." MSNBC has a story.

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Re:Stephen King, author, dead at 54 by gadders · 2001-08-31 01:16 · Score: 0, Offtopic

He's not dead - he's gone incognito to Mars.

Give it up with this Stephen King crap you numbnut.
Two Words: by robvasquez · 2001-08-31 01:30 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Stuart Little

The first time I tried to post that comment, I got:

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