Article: RUSSIA-MARS-MOON-EXPLORATION.

Article: Space experts battle over Mars vs. moon
Chicago Sun-Times;  December 10, 1989 ;     700+ words ... ... Earth, a manned outpost could be set up on the moon much more easily than on Mars. The moon's soil would be tapped for oxygen to help ... space telescope." More earthlike than the moon, Mars has an atmosphere, but it's harsh. Surface ...

Article: Moon, Mars capture public's imagination
Oakland Tribune;  December 5, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... exploration. Whether the destination is the moon or Mars -- or whether any plan actually makes liftoff ... Gibson sides with the humans-back-to-the-moon-then-on-to-Mars crowd. "The moon can be used as a development ground to allow ...

Article: New technologies could aid effort to send astronauts to ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  January 13, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... s plan for returning to the moon and sending astronauts to Mars sounds a lot like his father ... off the ground. But the new moon-Mars initiative, which Bush is scheduled ... vehicles to ferry astronauts to the moon and Mars. Instead, the agency could ...

Article: New technologies could aid effort to send astronauts to ...
Dallas Morning News;  January 13, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... s plan for returning to the moon and sending astronauts to Mars sounds a lot like his father ... off the ground. But the new moon-Mars initiative, which Bush is scheduled ... vehicles to ferry astronauts to the moon and Mars. Instead, the agency could ...

Article: MOON AND MARS COZY UP TO EACH OTHER
The Boston Globe;  January 7, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... the sky wheels around, look for Mars above the moon. Tomorrow they'll appear much ... to catch the eye. Although the moon and Mars seem like neighbors in the sky ... oceans. And compared with the Moon, Mars is almost homey. It has thin breezes ...

Article: Bush Wants to Soar to the Moon, Mars.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  January 15, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... It could be used to help on the moon-Mars mission. Robots similar to the ... general categories involving the moon-Mars mission and a few other smaller ... expert who managed the agency's moon-Mars exploration program in the 1990s ...

Article: Moon-Mars Effort Will Be New Effort
AP Online;  January 9, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... studies aimed at achieving the moon and Mars. The Apollo missions depended ... equipment could be landed on the moon and Mars ahead of an astronaut crew. That ... that might be discovered on the moon or Mars. No firm cost estimates have been ...