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Off to Mars. Yes and no.

Commentable: December 3, 2011
It hasn’t escaped notice that the Russians (with a Chinese probe) tried sending a mission to Mars, Fobos-Grunt-Yinghuo, which spluttered into low Earth orbit and presumably will fall back to Earth. Meanwhile, NASA the U.S. space agency lofted another Mars mission, MSL Curiosity, that is happily on its way to the Red Planet. If this [...]
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Mars 500: The simulation ends

Commentable: November 7, 2011
The Mars 500 facility, in a parking lot….Credit: ESA, Wikimedia Commons It was, as so many jokingly put it, a real down-to-earth mission to Mars. As in, the mission never left Earth. Beginning June 3, 2010 and ending November 4, 2011, the Mars 500 mission took place in a facility at the Russian Academy of [...]
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