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IEEE Spectrum June 2009 William Sweet	Do We Need to Go to the Moon to Get to Mars? Returning to the moon is not all that technically challenging. What's challenging is to make it an international effort that puts behind past grievances and sets the stage for a truly challenging international mission to Mars.
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Geotimes June 2004 Harrison H. Schmitt	Space Exploration and Development: Why Humans? George Bush's new initiative places the president squarely in support of moving civilization into the solar system and "into the cosmos."
Popular Mechanics September 4, 2007 Jill Tarter	Where Will the Next 50 Years in Space Take Us? Expert Opinions Leading thinkers from Buzz Aldrin (a robot fan) to Arthur C. Clarke (he wants a sub-orbital joyride) share their thoughts on where space will take us in the half-century ahead.
IEEE Spectrum August 2007 Barry E. DiGregorio	China Reaches For the Red Planet A joint project with Russia anticipates retrieving soil from the Martian moon Phobos.
Popular Mechanics October 12, 2009 Erik Sofge	8 Experts Weigh in on the Future of Human Spaceflight It's now up to NASA to consider the findings, and offer specific recommendations to the Obama administration.
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 Robert Zubrin	How to Go to Mars--Right Now! Human exploration of Mars doesn't need to wait for advanced rockets, giant spaceships, or lunar base stations
IEEE Spectrum October 2007 Saswato R. Das	Remembering Sputnik: Sir Arthur C. Clarke Although he is more revered for his role as an author, Clarke has well deserved the title of futurist for his groundbreaking thinking on space exploration. Here's an interview.
Scientific American November 2007 Robert Zubrin	Don't Wreck the Mars Program Devoting all the funding to just one mission would be a mistake.
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IEEE Spectrum April 2009 Anatoly Zak	Russia to Delay Martian Moon Mission Two-year setback seen as a blow to Russian space program's world standing
Scientific American August 2007 Jim Bell	Have Brain, Must Travel Although astronaut missions are much more expensive and risky than robotic craft, they are absolutely critical to the success of our exploration program.
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Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2005 John Rhea	President Bush's Space Vision: Is This Trip Necessary? NASA has finally unveiled details about its proposed $104 billion plan to return astronauts to the moon by 2018, but critics detect a demonstrably uncertain sound of this trumpet.
Geotimes July 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Jetting Through Space President Bush announced on Jan. 4, 2004, his vision to return humans to the moon, Mars and beyond. Without the Cold War era impetus, however, NASA is searching for new ways to motivate development of innovative new vehicles to fly humans to the moon.
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Popular Mechanics December 3, 2008 Glenn Harlan Reynolds	Why I Hope There's No Life on Mars If Mars is lifeless, that will make exploring -- and later settling -- the planet much easier.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2005 John Rhea	Money for space Space exploration is becoming politically fashionable again, and advanced technology firms would be well advised to get on board while the getting is good.
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Wired July 2001 Tom McNichol	The New Red Menace Robert Zubrin has a grand plan to turn the fourth planet into humanity's new frontier - within the next 10 years! Welcome to hell on, um, Mars...
Scientific American March 13, 2005 Mark Alpert	Lunar Science NASA's plan to establish a permanent lunar base and use the program's technology to prepare a human mission to Mars hinges on a risky prediction: that astronauts will find water ice in a permanently shadowed crater basin at one of the moon's poles.
Popular Mechanics August 2009 Aldrin & Noland	Buzz Aldrin to NASA: U.S. Space Policy Is on the Wrong Track This May, the Obama administration announced it would appoint an independent council of aerospace experts to review NASA's human spaceflight objectives.
Wired May 2003 Tom McNichol	The Race Back to the Moon Astropreneurs are counting down for a return to Apollo country. The first small step: a satellite atlas of the lunar surface. The next giant leap: ice mining, helium farming, and a launchpad to the solar system.
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The Motley Fool January 30, 2004 Tim Beyers	A New Space Race New exploration of the moon, Mars, and beyond may be decades away, but investors should seek to profit from it now.
Popular Mechanics July 30, 2008 Joe Pappalardo	Phoenix Mission 'Definitely' Finds Water Ice on Mars: Update The Phoenix mission will be extended, but team leaders aren't sure how long the lander will last, so they're gathering as much information and evidence on Mars as possible.
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Popular Mechanics March 4, 2009 Michael Belfiore	International Space Dominance: 7 Nations Launching the Next Space Race Here is a look at the capabilities of the top -- and most-talked-about -- space-faring nations in what may be a new world order. The race is on for space dominance.
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 Susan Hassler	Why Mars? Why Now? Forty years ago, Apollo astronauts took humanity's first baby step into the cosmos. It's time to take the next one
Popular Mechanics September 9, 2009 Joe Pappalardo	5 Ways the Augustine Commission's Report States the Obvious A group of respected aerospace experts spent the entire summer coming up with plans for the future of NASA, and the advice is far from shocking.
Geotimes February 2005	Touching Titan Little more than an hour after landing, the Huygens probe sent back its first shots of Saturn's largest moon.
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Popular Mechanics October 15, 2008 Andrew Moseman	As Phoenix Mission Ends, Project Leaders Chart Mars Future The Phoenix is now racing against time to complete more of its groundbreaking research before the harsh martian winter brings its death, said the project's science leader, Peter Smith of the University of Arizona.
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Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2005 John Rhea	The $10 billion NASA market NASA's budget for fiscal year 2006 envisions spending $10 billion for new competitive opportunities with industry, academia, and the agency's own field centers -- with the big-ticket item being the President's plan for returning humans to the Moon and exploring the planets.
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