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Article: TWO GIANT LEAPS FOR MANKIND; Men will go to Mars and live on moon.(News)
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- Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
- Article date:
- January 10, 2004
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Byline: By Gary Jones
AMERICA is planning to send men to Mars and build a colony on the moon.
President George Bush will announce the incredible schemes next week.
The permanent moon base would be used as a training ground for the Mars mission. The journey to the red planet and back would take at least three years.
US space agency NASA are still reeling from the loss of space shuttle Columbia last February and the deaths of all seven astronauts on board. The Mars plan will revitalise the space programme and boost Bush's popularity in an ...