Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2015 11:00:16 -0400
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
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Subject: [WSFA] Putting Astronauts on Mars: NASA Lays Out Three-Phase Plan
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Excerpt:
  The path to Mars goes through the moon \342\200\224 or the region of space near the
moon, anyway.

NASA aims to put boots on Mars in the 2030s after first gathering
human-spaceflight experience and expertise in low Earth orbit and the
"proving ground" of cis-lunar space near the moon.

NASA has been working on this three-stage path to the Red Planet for some
time, and the space agency lays out the basic plan in a 36-page report
called "Journey to Mars: Pioneering Next Steps in Space Exploration,"
which was released Thursday (Oct. 8).
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<http://www.space.com/30788-nasa-astronauts-on-mars-plan.html>

        mark