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NASA, European Space Agency Want To Go To Mars

Posted by Soulskill on from the merging-to-beat-their-competitors dept.

coondoggie writes "NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) are aiming to cooperate on all manner of robotic orbiters, landers and exploration devices for a future trip to Mars. Specifically, NASA and ESA recently agreed to consider the establishment of a new joint initiative to define and implement their scientific, programmatic, and technological goals for the exploration of Mars. The program would focus on several launch opportunities with landers and orbiters conducting astrobiological, geological, geophysical, climatological, and other high-priority investigations and aiming at returning samples from Mars in the mid-2020s."

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  1. Cooperation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    As long as they agree on one set of units it should be fine.

  2. Re:First things first. by nuclearpenguins · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Perhaps investing in developing the new technologies we would need to get our asses to Mars would create all sorts of new jobs.

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