First the ISS, and now Mars? That’s what’s on the mind of the Canadian Space Agency, who want to participate in the NASA Mars 2007 ‘Smart Lander’ mission. The venture could cost Canada hundreds of millions of dollars if it gets the go-ahead, but would give the country’s scientists a chance to contribute experiments on the lander and perhaps make sure they can get their hands on samples of Mars soil future any future sample return missions.
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Despite continued troubles with their space launch projects, the Japanese have not been dissuaded from expanding their space industry. According to the Sankei newspaper, Japan may be spending up to $5.3 billion over 10 to 15 years on developing a reuseable space shuttle.
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When the first humans land on Mars, what will they see and experience when they look to horizon at sunset? Ryder Miller considers the importance of sunsets to the human condition and how we must rethink our priorities in the exploration of Mars.
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To the British readers of New Mars: Have you signed up for the upcoming Mars Society UK Symposium? On January 19th, speakers including Dr. Robert Zubrin, Prof. Colin Pillinger and Charles Frankel will be presenting at the Milton Keynes National Hockey Stadium Conference Centre. Registration costs as little as
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Lately, Mars has been the focus of many attractive coffee-table books with generous illustrations and, for the most part, absolutely useless content. Can MARS by Heather Couper and Nigel Henbest do any better? Stuart Atkinson investigates…
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New Mars would like to wish all of its readers a happy New Year!
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Airplanes like ‘airborne titanics’? 10,000ft runways with arresting wires? No, these aren’t the plans for the next US air carrier but the situation that would face those who want to fly on Mars. With an atmosphere less than 1% as thick as Earth’s and one third gravity, airspeed and inertia are real problems. Luckily, the X-Plane website is attempting to find answers…
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Today, New Mars features its first Mars book review of Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Martians. In the coming weeks, we’ll be featuring more reviews of Mars related books, movies and products. If you’d like to contribute a review, please email Adrian Hon.
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Adrian Hon reviews Kim Stanley Robinson’s collection of short stories, The Martians. This anthology serves as a wonderful companion to his award-winning Mars trilogy and also has a number of standalone short stories.
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BBC News Online takes a retrospective look at space travel in 2001. Mir, space tourism and the ISS are all discussed - but Mars is glaring in its absence.
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