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Everything you need to know to sound well-educated about Mars
BY: ROB HOFFMAN Mars has received quite a bit of positive press recently, between The Martian and a handful of upcoming NASA initiatives that will ultimately see our generation as the first to reach and possibly inhabit the red planet.…
Six NASA recruits are living in a dome to mimic life on Mars
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In 2024, one of these five candidates may be selected to live and die on Mars (Video)
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NASA has begun planning the first manned mission to Mars
BY: TED BARNABY NASA has released plans to embark on two incredible landmark missions in the upcoming future: landing humans on an asteroid by 2025, and on Mars in the 2030s. Mars is a planet, which has long captured the…
The budget for space exploration eclipses ocean exploration 150 To 1
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Can we justify space exploration when the Earth is in distress?
BY: ATLAS Bill Nye keeps a Canadian fiver in his wallet. Yes, that Bill Nye. The science guy. The one you—and anyone else who’s spent any time inside a North American classroom since the early ’90s—watched in science class. These…