Article: Stephen Hawking calls for colonization of Moon and Mars

Article: Space experts battle over Mars vs. moon
Chicago Sun-Times;  December 10, 1989 ;     700+ words ......H. Truly considers the moon a critical step on the way to Mars. "It will be an important...could be set up on the moon much more easily than on Mars. The moon's soil would be tapped...More earthlike than the moon, Mars has an atmosphere, but...

Article: CREW OF FIRST MANNED FLIGHT TO MOON URGES MARS MISSION BUT NASA SAYS A LUNAR BASE IS THE MORE LIKELY NEXT STEP
The Boston Globe;  July 21, 1987 ;     557 words ......best way of going to Mars is by the way of the moon," Fletcher said. "I think...that landed men on the moon and the program to land men on Mars." Collins made the same...end. "I don't think the moon is a steppingstone to Mars," he said. "A lunar base...

Article: U.S. Planning Base on Moon To Prepare for Trip to Mars; Scientists Hard at Work On Technological Hurdles
The Washington Post;  March 26, 2006 ;     700+ words ......spaceship, get back to the moon by 2020 and travel on to Mars after that. But, with NASA...Pages." In some ways, the moon will be harder than Mars. Moon dust is much more abrasive...interview. "Could we bypass the moon and go to Mars while India and China are...

Article: Bush wants $1billion more for NASA Increase meant to help plan for moon base, manned Mars mission
Chicago Sun-Times;  January 14, 2004 ;     490 words ......said part of the funding for the moon-Mars initiative would come from reallocation...will give broad outlines to the moon-Mars plan, leaving details to be worked...include sending robot craft to the moon and later to Mars to cache supplies for use later...

Article: New technologies could aid effort to send astronauts to moon, Mars.(The Dallas Morning News)
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 devise...

Article: New technologies could aid effort to send astronauts to moon, Mars.
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 devise...

Article: Mission to Mars: U.S. astronauts may again walk on the moon--and someday land on Mars.(USA)
Junior Scholastic;  March 8, 2004 ;     700+ words ......manned station on the moon, and to use that base to push on to Mars--50 million miles away...setting up a station on the moon and going from there to Mars are enormous. The trip...stations on both the moon and Mars to make fuel and support...

Article: Bush to ask for big boost in NASA's budget to fund moon, Mars missions
AP Worldstream;  January 14, 2004 ;     506 words ......said part of the funding for the moon-Mars initiative would come from reallocation...will give broad outlines to the moon-Mars plan, leaving details to be worked...include sending robot craft to the moon and later to Mars to cache supplies for use later...

Article: NASA's shift from Mars to Moon irks Mars buffs.
PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.;  April 15, 2005 ;     335 words ......NASA's shift of focus from Mars to Moon has irked researchers on the...geologist and the only Asian on its Mars Mission told PTI. Though Moon being just three days away from...Mission, said. The question of 'Moon over Mars' took an interesting turn when...

Article: Moon, Mars Proposal Stirs Mixed Reaction
AP Online;  January 9, 2004 ;     521 words ......sending astronauts back to the moon and maybe on to Mars is stirring a mix of excitement...proposals to get humans to the moon and to Mars." Barlow said she'll be convinced...Robert Zubrin, president of the Mars Society, agreed the moon should be a milepost toward...

Article: Early morning sky: Mars versus the moon
Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA;  July 16, 2003 ;     441 words ......encounter between the moon and Mars during the predawn hours. The moon is in the waning...begins about 4:45, Mars will appear very...upper limb of the moon. Use binoculars for...eclipse behind the moon at approximately 3:45 a.m. Mars itself will be eclipsed by the moon ...

Article: Fancy the view? .. you could live here by 2020; U.S. COLONY ON MOON .. THEN MAN ON MARS.(News)
The Mirror (London, England);  January 10, 2004 ;     601 words ......The idea is to go to Mars. The way you get to Mars is you go to the Moon and you practise...in lunar orbit. A Moon colony may require...reactor for power. For Mars, everything would...'s keen to go to the Moon especially as it would...back a few rocks. Mars is something else...

Article: BUSH: IT'S TIME TO GO BACK TO THE MOON -- PLUS MARS.(News)
The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH);  January 9, 2004 ;     626 words ......human settlement on the moon and to set a goal of...sending Americans to Mars, administration sources...with a return to the moon as a stepping stone to Mars -- in 1989, on the 20th...isolated landing zone on Mars. The moon can be reached in three...

Article: TWO GIANT LEAPS FOR MANKIND; Men will go to Mars and live on moon.(News)
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  January 10, 2004 ;     624 words ......is planning to send men to Mars and build a colony on the moon. President George Bush will...yesterday: ``The way you get to Mars is to go to the moon and practise threedays fromhome...back to Earth CAPTION(S): MARS MOON; Round trip to Red Planet...