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Europe Joins Race To Send Humans To Mars

Posted by timothy on from the dibs-on-the-waterfront-property dept.

hereisnowhy writes "CBC reports that the ESA hopes to send humans to Mars within three decades. They first hope to return a Martian soil sample by 2014. They stress the importance of determining whether Mars ever supported life before humans touch down on the surface, because "You can sterilize a robot. But you cannot do the same to an astronaut. Inevitably a human will introduce microbes to the planet ... and contaminate it."" Kame-sennin links to a Reuters article on the plans.

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  1. Re:I'm surprised... by A+Bugg · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Yeah Bush is a business man but he's a crappy one. He had to be bailed out of Harken energy remember. Yeah he made an alright chunck out change from his rangers shares but whoopty shit. That doesn't make him a good business man. Then there's Arbusto energy his first oil company that went bust and got merged to save his butt along with Spectrum 7 which then got swallowed into Harken. Trust me he has tried and failed at business, I wouldn't put much stock in his business sense.
    The people around him on the other hand....
    A Bugg