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.
"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.
The goal of becoming the first country to land a human on Mars is "technically and economically achievable" by 2025, he said.
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.
"We lost the race to the moon," Zelyony said.
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.
The last manned US mission to the moon was the December 1972 flight of Apollo 17.
1.08.2008
Damnation!! I want my space race now!!
Russia says it is ahead in race to put man on Mars
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They may be able to land a person on Mars in 2025, but they won't be able to get them back. Hell's bells, they haven't even put a droid on the fucking planet. We have. Thrice. You could multiply the number of Russian probes orbiting our red neighbor by any number and it's still the same: ZERO. And they think they can just DO it? Come on...
ReplyDeleteI think we could use their help in a Mars mission, but it's not necessary. Droids till 2020, humans by 2030. That's what I say.
I agree that the tinned borscht crowd will probably rack up unknown amounts of casualties for naught, but I'm hoping their efforts light the candles under OUR rockets. NOW.
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