DocumentCode
916832
Title
Why Mars? Why Now?
Author
Hassler, Susan
Volume
46
Issue
6
fYear
2009
fDate
6/1/2009 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
26
Lastpage
29
Abstract
Are we going to go to Mars or not ? Now would be a good time to decide. Are you listening, President Obama? Yes, the president has lots of things on his mind. But that´s true of any president, anytime. And the fact is, the U.S. government is already spending billions of dollars a year on a space program that has a trip to Mars as its ultimate but inadequately funded and too-far-off-to-get-excited-about goal.
Keywords
Mars; aerospace industry; government policies; research and development; space vehicles; Mars; US government; government space program; manned space exploration; Mars; Pediatrics;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Spectrum, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9235
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/MSPEC.2009.4977604
Filename
4977604
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