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Article: Mission to Mars: U.S. astronauts may again walk on the moon--and someday land on Mars.(USA)
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- Junior Scholastic
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- March 8, 2004
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Is there life on Mars?
From the first moment that humans looked up into the skies, they wondered about life on the planets and stars. The planet Mars holds a special fascination for Earthlings. It is our closest neighbor in the solar system--the fourth rock from the sun. And of all the planets, scientists say, there is the greatest chance that life existed on Mars.
Now we may find our for sure. President Bush has ordered NASA, the U.S. space agency, to begin planning for a permanent manned station on the moon, and to use that base to push on to Mars--50 million miles away.
"The 12-year-old boy in me is jumping up and down," said science-fiction ...