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- Why There's Still Not a Human on Mars http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/11/151111-mars-mission-fail-history-astronaut-science/ 43 comments
- Elon Musk still wants to go to Mars. But the founder of SpaceX opened the door to sending humans to the Moon first. "It’s 2017, we should have a lunar base by now”. — At the end of his speech, Musk also discussed point-to-point transport on Earth. https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/09/musk-revises-his-mars-ambitions-and-they-seem-a-little-bit-more-real/ 79 comments technology
- Arizona Scientist: We Could All Be Martians | As long as we’re still pondering human origins, we may as well entertain the idea that our ancestor microbes came from Mars. http://www.universetoday.com/2009/02/21/arizona-scientist-we-could-all-be-martians/ 10 comments science
- Report backs NASA proposal to change astronaut radiation exposure limits. A National Academies committee has endorsed a NASA proposal to change the radiation exposure limits the agency sets for its astronauts but cautioned that the revised limit is still insufficient for human Mars missions. https://spacenews.com/report-backs-nasa-proposal-to-change-astronaut-radiation-exposure-limits/ 12 comments space
- The five active probes orbiting Mars aren't Humanity's only artefacts circling the Red Planet. "Mars Is a Spacecraft Graveyard", a 2010 article, remembers our long-deceased machine ambassadors, some of which still orbit in silence! http://www.space.com/8205-mars-spacecraft-graveyard.html 3 comments space