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Russia says it is ahead in race to put man on Mars
Russia is leading the race to complete a manned mission to Mars and could land a Russian on the Red Planet by 2025, a leading scientist was quoted as saying on Tuesday.Did anyone mention that you have to return the crew safely being part of meeting the challenge successfully? "We have something of a head start in this race as we have the most experience in piloted space flight," the director of the prestigious Space Research Institute, Lev Zelyony, told Interfax news agency on Tuesday. Please provide your definition of "something" as it seems to be too elusive for me to capture, oh insecure country without so much as a lander on Mars. The goal of becoming the first country to land a human on Mars is "technically and economically achievable" by 2025, he said. Sure. If you keep stoking terrorism and the price of oil and weapons remains high. Mars is the most prestigious prize for the Russian space industry if it wants to boost the country's "scientific and political prestige" through manned space flight, he said. How about trying to boost your country's prestige through useful stuff instead of making weapons for idiots? "We lost the race to the moon," Zelyony said. Are you The United States achieved that goal on July 20, 1969, when Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the moon. Careful, you you'll agitate the nutters! The last manned US mission to the moon was the December 1972 flight of Apollo 17. Boy, that was quite a while ago, wasn't it? Wonder what the US could come up with today even though it isn't anywhere near the central focus of their existance. Posted by: gorb 2008-01-09 |
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