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Article: NASA mulling manned trips to moon or Mars
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 23, 1987
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WASHINGTON Looking beyond resumption of space shuttle flights
next year and establishment of a permanent space station in the
mid-1990s, NASA is considering returning astronauts to the moon or
sending a manned mission to Mars.
"It's time to make sure that we understand what our goals will
be in the late 1990s and the beginning of the 21st century,"
astronaut Sally K. Ride said Monday.
Ride, who heads the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration's new Office of Space Exploration, outlined the
agency's thinking on the two ventures at the opening of a five-day
conference on space biology and medicine.
If the moon is revisited, the first astronauts would land in the
year 2000, she ...