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"The total human experience on the Moon is less than 27 human working days – on a world that is the size of Africa," he says. "So whether the Moon is a stepping stone to Mars or a place of interest in its own right depends on knowledge we don't have yet." ...
"The experiment would consist of placing a crew on the space station for say seven or eight months, then taking them from the station and landing them on the Moon and asking them to survive there for nine months to a year, with no further assistance other than what they have brought," says Griffin.''
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"In the depths of the Antarctic winter, expeditioners at Australia’s research bases might as well be on the moon. Or on their way to Mars. ..."
Source here and here.
Monday, October 06, 2008
Before sending people to Mars...
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Section: Space exploration
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