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Russian Group Plans Manned Mars Mission By 2011
weekendwarrior1980 writes "A group of Russian space experts on Friday announced an ambitious plan to send a six-man crew to Mars within a decade, a project it said would cost only $3.5 billion. Russian space officials dismissed the project as nonsense. They plan to have 6 people explore Mars for months before returning to Earth. The Mission would take 3 years, and would depend on fully equipped spacecraft containing its own garden, medical facilities etc."
Of course it is nonsense... the russians barely have enough money to keep the country afloat, let alone spend on a manned trip to Mars.
That's almost as crazy as Bush wanting to send people to Mars... How about getting the deficit under control???
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Programming is like sex... Make one mistake and support it the rest of your life.
you are going to need at least a zippo and a top hat as well.
The "Insert Quote Here" line is almost as predictable as inserting an actual quote.
... would be on china too, IF they used russian brains to bootstrap it, and IF the "blackops" boys in the "coalition of the willing to profit" didn't sabotage them, which I think will most likely happen once china starts their moon projects.
Basically, even if the US doesn't do more advanced manned space really soon, I don't think they want any other power or nation or private concern to do it either. And I think they would dirty tricks any effort to do so, frankly. They have "we will own the high ground" down as a religious catechism.
Why attempt landing? Better to fly there and go for direct bulls-eye crash into crater.
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